Parler, AWS, and the ACLU
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Yeah, so? This is still disingenuous weasely argument if I ever read one.
Between those 3 (or 4) Cloud infrastructure providers they have a huge chunk of the market.
Even if they did, AWS alone kicking a webpage/app out for non-technical censorship reasons, is enough to cause huge migration and other costs to the app. Enough to obliterate a webpage/app without much runway.
(And if those other big cloud providers would wish to get into the same game, they could successively ban websites/apps they decide, one after another).
AWS shouldn't be involved in such decisions, the same way we ask telcos for net neutrality.
AWS themselves estimate that all four of them only have 4% of companies, and it’s estimated that they host 8.9% of websites in general. That’s not a “huge” portion of the market.
> Even if they did, AWS alone kicking a webpage/app out for non-technical censorship reasons, is enough to cause huge migration and other costs to the app. Enough to obliterate a webpage/app without much runway.
Yeah, that’s a known issue. But it’s not a free speech problem; it’s part of the tradeoff of using a platform like AWS. There’s a reason why all kinds of businesses have an AWS contingency plan; Parler not having one is their problem, not society’s.
> AWS shouldn't be involved in such decisions, the same way we ask telcos for net neutrality.
... there is literally an entire section of why Net Neutrality is good, and why Net Neutrality shouldn’t cover AWS.