AWS disables ISIS propaganda website it had hosted since April

washingtonpost.com

38 points·saguntum··21 comments

Have to wonder if one of the three letter agencies quietly told them to keep it up with some "additional oversight" in place..

More proof that these platforms have zero content moderation and actually do not give a shit until somebody notices. I don’t see how such examples make their content policies and enforcement thereof highly questionable within the legal system.

Are the free speech absolutionists against this move or not?

Did banning the app magically stop ISIS and end terrorism?

The terrorists will circumvent this and use some other app while law-abiding people continue to have their human rights infringed on by censorship and deplatforming.

It infringes Amazon's rights. Why should they be forced to host this?

> The company took down the site, which touted the suicide attack that killed at least 170 people in Kabul, after The Post reported extremists were using the service

170 people. 13 service members. Amazon wants no part of this and that is their right.

> free speech absolutionists

I'm sure this was unintentional, but hilarious nonetheless.

How would they notice it?

If the "correct politically aligned group" tells them about it.

If it's the "incorrect" group, it will be ignored.

Trying to proactively police all websites hosted on your VM based infrastructure is probably pretty hard. Scraping your IP space for keywords in many languages is a blunt tool and probably has too many false positives.

I don't know if people had reported it to their abuse system and that process failed. If that's the case, then they have work to do.

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