<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">We’re straying pretty far into OT here but they do run a network - Trump banning TikTok because they hurt his feelings would be Stalinist.<div><br></div><div>Twitter banning Trump for TOD violations is the Free Market speaking.</div><div><br></div><div>It’s pretty fundamental to civics, participation society, and sanity in general, to get these right.<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 9:33 PM, bzs@theworld.com wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span></span><br><span>Sometimes it's worth turning the issue around and looking at it right</span><br><span>up the...um, whatever.</span><br><span></span><br><span>A friend who is rather right-wing (tho mostly sane) said angrily that</span><br><span>AWS terminating Parler was "Stalinist" (apparently his metaphor for</span><br><span>totalitarian.)</span><br><span></span><br><span>I said no, the government _forcing_ AWS to carry Parler, or Twitter to</span><br><span>carry Trump (another 'plaint) would be "Stalinist".</span><br><span></span><br><span>Imagine if a Chinese social media company refused to carry anything</span><br><span>posted by Xi Jinping (China's president) for similar reasoning.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Then you'd likely, one can only speculate, see "Stalinist" in action.</span><br><span></span><br><span>P.S. Does anyone know whether Trump is paid for his Twitter traffic as</span><br><span>many celebrities are?</span><br><span></span><br><span>-- </span><br><span> -Barry Shein</span><br><span></span><br><span>Software Tool & Die | bzs@TheWorld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com</span><br><span>Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: +1 617-STD-WRLD | 800-THE-WRLD</span><br><span>The World: Since 1989 | A Public Information Utility | *oo*</span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>