Subj : Re: Done with them?
To   : Aaron Thomas
From : Ron Lauzon
Date : Mon Jan 25 2021 09:55 am

-=> Aaron Thomas wrote to Charles Pierson <=-

 AT> I agree - private companies should be able to do what they want - even
 AT> censor people

But those companies
1) are public companies - so their shareholders will have plenty to say
2) claim to be "platforms" for discussion and have legal protection under
Section 230 so that they can't be sued for what other people say.  But they
act like publishers and police their content.

 AT> Trump's mistake is he should have just used his own website. That would
 AT> have been simple, reliable, and almost completely uncensorable.

I think that's becoming obvious to many companies right now.  They cannot
rely on other platforms.  How many companies right now are actively thinking
about leaving AWS because of what happened with Parler?


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