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.
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<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
