Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support

Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support by mcguire on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:20PM (#25735955)

Here are the AWS Service Terms (https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/) and the AWS Acceptable Use Policy (https://aws.amazon.com/aup/). You are responsible for understanding and following these as well as the appropriate laws (which probably require the assistance of a lawyer, which I am not, and which is probably a good idea in any case).

If a service provider refuses you service and you believe it violates the terms of service that you agreed to (that's going to be a hard row to hoe), you should have legal recourse. (Still not a lawyer, though.)

Technically, the safest approach would be to build your own geographically-distributed server facilities and get your own Autonomous System Number. Remember to take care---the legal responsibilities in individual countries differ.

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Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support by nautilus12 on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:31PM (#25736183)

The problem is that someone (Parler in this case) would have to actively build automated moderation systems or be philosophically aligned with moderation in order to fulfill the TOS in this case since its the users driving the violation. The baseline shouldn't require them build something, that seems like a burden too far. Suppose the violators were bots, doesn't this mean that anyone that can't build a moderation system to keep up with the bots becomes collateral damage?

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Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support by res0nat0r on Monday January 11, 2021 @04:25PM (#25737358)

> doesn't this mean that anyone that can't build a moderation system to keep up with the bots becomes collateral damage?

Yes.

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