Parler

Sun Jan 10 14:48:10 UTC 2021

On 1/10/21 5:42 AM, sronan at 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