On 1/10/21 4:00 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
sro...@ronan-online.com <sro...@ronan-online.com>:
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?
Yes, it would. This was an astonnishingly stupid move on AWS's part;
I'm prett sure their counsel was not conmsulted.
Surely everyone on this list, purportedly a network operators list, has
to have at least heard of 47 USC Section 230... right?
