I’m not sure either Joe. I am a staunch proponent of free expression, but I remember a time when you could just. Totally trust an e-mail header.
Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon, ASCE 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC CEO b...@6by7.net "The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company in the world.” FCC License KJ6FJJ Sent from my iPhone via RFC1149. > On Jan 10, 2021, at 8:25 AM, Joe Greco <jgr...@ns.sol.net> wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 10:03:51AM -0500, 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? > > That's not interesting or even a reasonable comparison. > > Twitter wasn't involved in the former. There is a huge difference in > the President being told that he cannot block random citizens from > reading his tweets (no Twitter involvement), and Twitter declaring that > they no longer wish to provide service to the President (Twitter's > right as it is their private property). The President is free to > pursue alternative venues for his messaging. > > Conflating unrelated things and drawing bad conclusions is not useful. > > > At some point, it seems likely that the networking community may be > faced with more choices such as what Cloudflare faced with 8chan. In > an ideal world, people would act responsibly and we could have the nice > things like libertarian ideals, but the reality as demonstrated by the > last quarter century seems to indicate otherwise, in many small and not- > so-small ways. > > I find that distressing, but I am not so libertarian as to insist that > others pay for this stuff with their lives. I don't have any idea what > the correct answer is, though. > > ... JG > -- > Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net > "The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way > through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that > democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'"-Asimov
