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Re:Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Am... by jakelazaroff on Friday March 08, 2019 @11:19AM (#19338927)
Can you avoid using services that run on AWS, though? Or avoid sites that advertise and get analytics from Google? These companies are so dangerous not only because of their consumer-facing services, but the fact that they've made themselves an integral part of our online infrastructure.
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Re:Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Am... by wolco on Friday March 08, 2019 @12:30PM (#19339757)
When visiting a site you have the choice to visit or not. Site owners have the choice of what to put up and how to host it.

That's like asking the government to break up the react framework because more sites are using it and you have no jquery option.

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Re:Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Am... by jakelazaroff on Friday March 08, 2019 @01:01PM (#19340161)
> When visiting a site you have the choice to visit or not. Site owners have the choice of what to put up and how to host it.

Not really — my option is basically "indirectly support AWS" or "forego large swaths of the Internet." Site owners have to choose between directly supporting AWS, indirectly supporting AWS via intermediary services that use it, or giving up the economies of scale that AWS's dominance allows.

> That's like asking the government to break up the react framework because more sites are using it and you have no jquery option.

This is not analogous. AWS is a company. React is an open source project.

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Re:Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Am... by Spivak on Friday March 08, 2019 @06:10PM (#19343147)
Would anything meaningfully change if React was a paid product?
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Re:Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Am... by basch on Friday March 08, 2019 @11:28AM (#19339020)
Sure it might be hard to avoid AWS but 1) Azure is coming for it fast and 2) from a customer standpoint using AWS is pretty independent of selling products on Amazon. If amazon were deranking products whos owners had switched from aws to azure, i might have a different opinion.
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