Hi Jim. Web hosting strikes me as a non discretionary basic service like installing telephone service or receiving mail. There’s nothing discretionary at all about a decision to provide the service if you’re offering the service. I’m a supporter for any emergency litigation funds being created.
No, installing/enabling telephone service is not the same thing as providing the continual service. Selling a car is one thing, providing the road to drive it on is another. And to use the phone of Internet service we are subject to Terms of Service agreements, which are purposely so ambiguous they they could easily justify terminating our use based on advocating Christian morality, and political views as expressed here. To wit, Verizon's ToS for residential customers states, in part,
General Policy: Verizon reserves the sole discretion to deny or restrict your Service, or immediately to suspend or terminate your Service, if the use of your Service by you or anyone using it, in our sole discretion, violates the Agreement or other Verizon policies, is objectionable or unlawful...
use the service in any fashion for the transmission or dissemination .. in a manner that.. espouses, promotes or incites bigotry, hatred or racism;
The Comcast Cloud Solutions Terms of Service (for businesses) states, in part,
BY USING THE CLOUD SOLUTIONS MARKETPLACE YOU AGREE NOT TO post, upload, or distribute any User Submission (as defined in Section 8 below) or other content that is defamatory....inaccurate... or that a reasonable person could deem to be objectionable, offensive,...threatening, embarrassing, distressing, vulgar, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, or otherwise inappropriate.
And the tendency is that of the Left applying what you see deemed in universities as objectionable, threatening, inappropriate, etc. to society as a whole