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Freedom of speech, you cry.

Well, OK, this is freedom of speech…for Stripe. They don’t like what Trump has done. They are a private company. It’s their ball. They can take it home whenever they want to.

Speech has consequences, and if you foment a hostile takeover of Congress, you pay your price.

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This argument went out the window when Amazon started infrastructure bans. "Build your own..." What? Internet? Country?

I would greatly appreciate if the Trumpists would go form their own nation.

I recognize that you were being facetious, but this is work a look.

Greater decentralization, smaller polities and a less powerful federal government could be a workable solution. It doesn't have to go to the point of secession. It is possible to respond with tolerance and let all sides live according to their wishes.

"Build your own country" would be a nice start to another civil war.

Amazon aren't the only provider of hosting services, even if they are one of the largest. It's entirely doable to shift providers, even in the face of censorship - The Pirate Bay is one long-running example of this.

I'm not sure how you missed the point by that much. Infrastructure bans are a thing now. You can't produce an app to compete with Twitter and Facebook if you don't have access to scalable infrastructure. Moving to a different host to get canceled there isn't a solution.

Yes you can, it just means the scalability has to be designed in without using AWS/GCP/Azure services. Just like we all used to do it.

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