[dangus]

I think the author is taking the legalese too seriously and reading too far into the phrase “otherwise objectionable.”

This is just a standard abuse TOS. Yes, “otherwise objectionable” casts a wide net, but I think in the legal understanding of the sentence it’s supposed to refer to “similarly egregious things that a judge would agree were in this same relative severity of abusive content.”

A judge wouldn’t simply allow “otherwise objectionable” to mean “literally anything.”

I would also point out that if you host abusive/illegal content on your own PC your ISP can shut you down just the same.

[IanGabes]

I think the legalese should be taken seriously!

For instance, we can draw a comparison to recent controversy with social media platforms. Do you think that social media platforms should be able to remove any content on their platform, regardless of legality? I believe that they can! Otherwise objectionable is hopefully that catch all.

I view the OP as a bit of a misguided test. The blog post, in all likelihood, will remain up. The control the authour speaks of will still remain in the cloud provider's hands.

[pmiller2]

If you're going to take "legalese" seriously, what you need to take seriously is what it means, which is often slightly different from what it appears to say to a non-lawyer.

[millennialist]

Not only do I believe that social media websites should be able to remove content arbitrarily, but that they ought to remove as much content as they can arbitrarily as possible.

this, combined with new government regulation such as EARN IT will make it as difficult and frustrating as possible to communicate on the web, and this will help people move from worse, censorship-prone forms of communication to more robust forms of communication on the internet.

[stordoff]

> A judge wouldn’t simply allow “otherwise objectionable” to mean “literally anything.”

Only matters to a limited degree when read in the context of:

> The examples described in this Policy are not exhaustive. We may modify this Policy at any time by posting a revised version on the AWS Site. By using the Services or accessing the AWS Site, you agree to the latest version of this Policy.

If Amazon object to it, even if it isn't 'similarly objectionable', they can adjust their AUP to take it down.