AWS Removing Services for Parler

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5 pointsjmatthews4 comments

Feel free to delete this if there is another thread I can't find.

I am no Trump supporter, but this is the modern version of a book burning.

The two points of contention in my mind:

1) At what point does a platform or technology become a "utility", with the appropriate regulations and guarantees afforded that legal status?

2) When will companies learn, if you want to control your own fate, you can't build your house on someone else's property.

Is there a reason to vehemently defend people's right to threaten violence?

There is a reason to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech doesn't need protecting.

However, that's not the issue that concerns me. My issue is the conflation of TOS, applied as is expedient, on a resource that is treated in the same way as a utility.

Parler isn't publicly funded, nor does it serve a unique purpose.

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