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   -=> Daniel wrote to August Abolins <=-   
      
    Da> Even into the late 90s, it was the provider's liability if users did   
    Da> illegal activity using their systems. Sysops were forced to monitor   
    Da> user activity on their bbs's. My sysop watched everything I did. Sort   
    Da> of creepy. Less than a year ago, congress was threatening facebook adn   
    Da> all the other providers with taking the legislation away. The speaker   
    Da> said they were taking advantage of the law and it can be taken away. I   
    Da> thought it was funny as if she was sitting on top fo the government and   
    Da> was holding all the power. That threat fell flat. But anyway, the late   
    Da> 90s gave the provider relief from this liability.   
      
   The law you are referring to was based on the argument that, "If we need to vet   
   everything everyone says on our systems, we can't run our systems and people   
   lose a way to communicate."  So the gov't basically extended a right already   
   given to the phone company.  If someone commits a crime via the phone, the   
   phone company cannot be held responsible because they are neutral 3rd party -   
   or in the case of this law, a "platform" for communication.   
      
   But then the big Leftie companies started suppressing non-Leftie communication.   
    Some people said "Hey!  Wait a minute!  You said that you couldn't do that and   
   run your systems.  So, stop suppressing speech or we will revoke your   
   protection."   
      
   The big Leftie companies said "OK", but really didn't change much.  They just   
   gave their speech suppression better sounding names.  Like "keeping   
   misinformation down" or "cracking down on Hate Speech".   
      
      
   ... I am not 40, I'm 18 with 22 years experience   
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