> What if, by way of uncritically publishing everything that everybody says, Twitter is accessory to treason? I'm not sure that a communications network passin

> What if, by way of uncritically publishing everything that everybody says, Twitter is accessory to treason? I'm not sure that a communications network passing on their users' communications would amount to treason. But let's run with that for instance, and assume it did, in law. > Do they have a right to demur? Clearly if a course of action is against the law, they have a legal obligation not to do it. True by definition. As to whether they have a moral obligation, that's another question entirely, and a rather complex one, as one would have to define what is moral. I would say that a company that wishes to continue operating in a country is going to have to obey the laws of that country. > Or must they participate in every crime that their users engage in? Well, that all depends on whether transmitting other people's messages constitutes a crime. Realistically, no company is going to do things that would get it shut down (and if they did, they wouldn't do so for long).