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by Spivak 2512 days ago
I don't think dropping someone as a customer on your platform meets the bar for exercising editorial control over content. CF specifically dropped one customer because they were trying to imply that being hosted by CF was an endorsement of their views.

This would be an unproductive outcome. There's really no point in allowing CDNs to be sued for the content they distribute except as a mechanism to force them to take unsavory customers to maintain their ability to not be sued. Why is it a problem that in your view, platforms can 'enjoy' the benefits of both?

Why can't a platform not endorse the content of their customers while also not doing business with people they don't like? It doesn't seem to be a contradiction -- a freelancer who refuses an offer to build a neo-nazi site is not suddenly endorsing the content that lives on all the other sites they built.