<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">I’m not sure either Joe. I am a staunch proponent of free expression, but I remember a time when you could just. Totally trust an e-mail header.<div><br></div><div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon, ASCE<br class="">6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC <br class="">CEO <br class=""><a href="mailto:ben@6by7.net" class="">ben@6by7.net</a><br class="">"The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company in the world.”</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br class="">FCC License KJ6FJJ<br class=""></span></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sent from my iPhone via RFC1149.</span></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jan 10, 2021, at 8:25 AM, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 10:03:51AM -0500, sronan@ronan-online.com wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>Another interesting angle here is that it as ruled President </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>couldn???t block people, because his Tweets were government </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>communication. So has Twitter now blocked government communication?</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>That's not interesting or even a reasonable comparison.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Twitter wasn't involved in the former. There is a huge difference in</span><br><span>the President being told that he cannot block random citizens from</span><br><span>reading his tweets (no Twitter involvement), and Twitter declaring that</span><br><span>they no longer wish to provide service to the President (Twitter's </span><br><span>right as it is their private property). The President is free to</span><br><span>pursue alternative venues for his messaging.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Conflating unrelated things and drawing bad conclusions is not useful.</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>At some point, it seems likely that the networking community may be</span><br><span>faced with more choices such as what Cloudflare faced with 8chan. In </span><br><span>an ideal world, people would act responsibly and we could have the nice</span><br><span>things like libertarian ideals, but the reality as demonstrated by the</span><br><span>last quarter century seems to indicate otherwise, in many small and not-</span><br><span>so-small ways.</span><br><span></span><br><span>I find that distressing, but I am not so libertarian as to insist that</span><br><span>others pay for this stuff with their lives. I don't have any idea what</span><br><span>the correct answer is, though.</span><br><span></span><br><span>... JG</span><br><span>-- </span><br><span>Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net</span><br><span>"The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way</span><br><span>through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that</span><br><span>democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'"-Asimov</span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>