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 >
