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This change would substantially benefit large providers at the expense of smaller providers. AWS can afford to be sued for hosting a forum or the costs of a bo
by throwaway19937 6y ago
This change would substantially benefit large providers at the expense of smaller providers.
AWS can afford to be sued for hosting a forum or the costs of a boycott for hosting Stormfront - a smaller provider could easily be wiped out.
Edited to add the following.
Most of this post was wrong. ttt0 is right that section 230 protects providers in the cases I mentioned. TIL about the scope of section 230 provider protection.
- ttt0 6y agoBoycotting a company for doing something its legally obligated to do doesn't make any sense. Regarding lawsuits, section 230 is a thing.