> Usenet servers act as common carriers but they are not legally common carriers (in my opinion) which means if I am right, the experiment will end as soon as someone decides to litigate against a server operator for passing on material that someone felt offended by. Not even copyright violations, just something they were offended by. For example, it is illegal to insult Ergodan (really) and while that law isn't enforceable here, it was elsewhere until recently in places like Germany which still had laws on the books saying it wasn't legal to insult foreign heads of state, etc. So it's just a big litigious mess now.
Reddit was a defendant in a lawsuit[1] of a similar vein that the USSC declined to hear.
Reddit was a defendant in a lawsuit[1] of a similar vein that the USSC declined to hear.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-declines-hear...