The Courts have never interpreted the free speech rights to be totally without limits. I am pretty sure sedition defined as a concrete threat to take back the country by blocking the vote certification of the incoming President is not protected speech. Just because one does not moderate all content does not mean one cannot moderate some content. Mostly hands off does not imply totally hands off.
________________________________ From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+rod.beck=unitedcablecompany....@nanog.org> on behalf of Matt Hoppes <mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net> Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2021 4:10 PM To: sro...@ronan-online.com <sro...@ronan-online.com> Cc: nanog@nanog.org <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Re: Parler Is that illegal though? > On Jan 10, 2021, at 10:07 AM, sro...@ronan-online.com wrote: > > Another interesting angle here is that it as ruled President couldn’t block > people, because his Tweets were government communication. So has Twitter now > blocked government communication? > > >> On Jan 10, 2021, at 9:51 AM, Michael Thomas <m...@mtcc.com> wrote: >> >> >>>> On 1/10/21 5:42 AM, sro...@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 >>
