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Re:Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store by valuearb on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:51PM (#25695079)
This isn’t possible without government control of the underlying components of the web, such as domain system. Otherwise private persons and companies can always create their own domain providers.

Yet you seem to advocate more government control. You see the dichotomy in your thoughts?

Re:Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store by SpaceRaccoon on Friday January 08, 2021 @09:00PM (#25695235)
Hasn't breaking up monopolies been a central tenet of ensuring a free market since forever? Suddenly you defend monopolies. Interesting, isn't it?
Re:Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store by FDSGSG on Friday January 08, 2021 @09:33PM (#25695626)
There is no hosting monopoly, there is no payment processing monopoly, there is no domain registration monopoly, there is no SSL CA monopoly.
Re:Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store by dmantis on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:19AM (#25700991)
Payment processings are monopolies. More precisely, oligopolies. See how easily Mastercard and Visa drop PornHub payments after the news paper article. It's not a court order or even a trial. There is mainly zero way of doing business without fully government controlled banking entry-points.

Yes, there are cryptocurrencies available, so if we can fully legalize it and promise that we don't touch anyone's private transactions (as well as businesses officially accepting crypto) - that would be an argument.

For better understanding how bad it is: it's non trivial to even accept worldwide payments for small business/individual in the internet if you are, say, from Ukraine, Russia, China or lots of other countries not processed by stripe/paypal for some political or legal reasons. Apart from that, there is a "free" market of two payment processors in the internet and two card processors =)

Re:Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store by FDSGSG on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:40AM (#25701208)
This is bizarre. You offer cryptocurrencies as the alternative for Mastercard and Visa. How about bank transfers?

It's perfectly normal in Europe to pay for your ecommerce purchases with a bank transfer directly to the merchants account. There are thousands of banks out there, there's no monopoly or oligopoly at play.

Re:Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store by SpaceRaccoon on Friday January 08, 2021 @10:17PM (#25696110)
It's sufficient to push undesirables to services which are more expensive, more inconvenient, unreliable, and so on. Relegate them to their internet ghetto.

However, there clearly is a small number of players in mobile platforms, cloud, and payment, and they act in a unified way. It has been sufficient.

Re:Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store by FDSGSG on Friday January 08, 2021 @10:26PM (#25696267)
>mobile platforms

Sure, there are in fact only a small number of players in this space.

>cloud

There are vast amounts of hosting providers. A quick google suggests over 300k, but that sounds somewhat unlikely.

>payment

There are a thousands of banks in the world, most of Europe manages just fine using bank transfers for payments without involving external payment processors.

>It's sufficient to push undesirables to services which are more expensive, more inconvenient, unreliable, and so on. Relegate them to their internet ghetto.

Is this really a problem? That's just the inherent nature of being undesirable.