Yes, significantly.

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> On Jan 10, 2021, at 10:10 AM, Matt Hoppes <mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net> 
> wrote:
> 
> 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
>>> 

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