Is that illegal though?
> On Jan 10, 2021, at 10:07 AM, sro...@ronan-online.com wrote: > > Another interesting angle here is that it as ruled President couldn’t block > people, because his Tweets were government communication. So has Twitter now > blocked government communication? > > >> On Jan 10, 2021, at 9:51 AM, Michael Thomas <m...@mtcc.com> wrote: >> >> >>>> On 1/10/21 5:42 AM, sro...@ronan-online.com wrote: >>> While Amazon is absolutely within their rights to suspend anyone they want >>> for violation of their TOS, it does create an interesting problem. Amazon >>> is now in the content moderation business, which could potentially open >>> them up to liability if they fail to suspend any other customer who hosts >>> objectionable content. >>> >>> When I actively hosted USENET servers, I was repeatedly warned by in-house >>> and external counsel, not to moderate which groups I hosted based on >>> content, less I become responsible for moderating all groups, shouldn’t >>> that same principal apply to platforms like AWS and Twitter? >> >> >> Is it content moderation, or just giving the boot to enabling criminal >> activity? Would that more providers be given the boot for enabling voice >> spam scams, for example. Didn't one of the $n-chan's get the boot a while >> back? I don't seem to recall a lot of push back about that and it was pretty >> much the same situation, iirc. >> >> Mike >>
