Re: Parler

[Seth Mattinen <sethm () rollernet us>]

On 1/10/21 4:00 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> sronan () ronan-online com <sronan () 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?