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>We just witnessed that you actually cant do any of those things (build your own platform that has real reach), there is no free market.

I am witnessing the reality that it’s never been easier and cheaper in the history of the world to reach almost everyone in the world within seconds.

It’s extremely easy to build a website, host it, have people type in a few letters and numbers, and “reach” each other. It’s never been easier, or cheaper. It’s as free market as it gets.

Insufficient amount of people may be interested in that, but that has nothing to do with the mechanisms in place that can allow you to reach people, which don’t need to include Amazon, Google, or any other host.

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> I am witnessing the reality that it’s never been easier and cheaper in the history of the world to reach almost everyone in the world within seconds.

Only as long you don't have the wrong opinion.

> It’s extremely easy to build a website, host it, have people type in a few letters and numbers, and “reach” each other. It’s never been easier, or cheaper. It’s as free market as it gets.

And where do you find it? Google? Also the witch-hunt doesn't stop there. Next up is the hosting (looking at Parler). I can't wait to see when registrars are next and you have to type in a dynamic IP given by the ISP. But everyone could reach you, they just have to know the IP. If that really would be viable ISP would be the next logical step in the witch-hunt.

> Only as long you don't have the wrong opinion.

With "wrong opinion" do you mean inciting hatred and violence, and spreading misinformation?

Because by that logic, we should also allow ISIS, Al-Qaeda et al. to do their thing.

Outside of these "wrong" opinions, parent commenter is pretty accurate. I've seen and heard of people launching a website in less than a day.

Let's not forget that freedom of speech does not give you freedom from consequences. AWS, Twitter, Google, Apple and everyone else has no obligation to give you a platform, especially when it looks bad on them, or it goes against their ahem morals (or rather: the employee's morals). Just like I, as an equal citizen, have no reason to hear you out or to spread your message, if I don't like your message.

> With "wrong opinion" do you mean inciting hatred and violence, and spreading misinformation?

Hey, how about you show me where Parler incited violence or where Trump did that. I don't care about buzzwords like misinformation or hatred - Twitter cares neither - but I do care about inciting violence.

In exchange I show you tweets from Khamanei - ayatollah of Iran.

> Because by that logic, we should also allow ISIS, Al-Qaeda et al. to do their thing.

ISIS/Al-Qaeda/Al-Nusra/Taliban whatever are terrorist groups; they don't only incite violence. Also putting misinformation and hatred in the same category as actual terror groups is really not wise.

> I am witnessing the reality that it’s never been easier and cheaper in the history of the world to reach almost everyone in the world within seconds.

Then please go ahead and build a website, make a statement on it and have, say, some 2 billion people read the statement.

That's just a fraction of the world's population, so it shouldn't be too hard. I'll wait.

2 billion people being able to read the statement is different than having 2 billion people read it. Nobody owes you the audience.

Bht the fact is, never in history has it been easier and cheaper to be ABLE to reach 2 billion people.

You don’t need thousands of employees, printing presses, lawyers and companies in multiple countries. You don’t even need to know different language. A single person has the ability to sit at their desk and make their ideas available to everyone that has access to the internet.

Im sorry to say this is a very naive view.

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