[the_logos]

These questions definitely aren't settled yet, indeed, but common carriers are definitely allowed to remove people from their service without losing common carrier status. On the other hand, most of us do remove content of various types if it's posted (I don't think too many MUDs would like to see someone encouraging the lynching of rl minorities for instance) which seems to call into question any claim we have to common carrier status at all.

(For those of you not sure what we're talking about: Common carrier status is a status under US law that's granted to phone companies, pure ISPs, etc. It allows them to avoid liability for content that travels over their network. Imagine if you could sue the phone company because someone defrauded you via the phone service....it'd be quite hard to run a phone company.)

Anyway, yeah, not a huge worry but thought I'd point it out.

--matt