HN doesn't want anything. Or if it does, you—as a member of HN—want it, too. If you're going to grant an exception to yourself, grant it to others here, as well.

HN is a huge community of humans. Those that post things on what you perceive as arguing one position are probably not the same ones you're seeing arguing the opposite. And even if they are, humans are well known for inconsistency.

That's not to say that perhaps there's not a majority, but I don't think we can assess that without some real numbers. Do you have those? If so, what was your methodology?

"Your users committed an act of insurrection against the current legitimate democratic government"

Please ban facebook now

But they are self hosted, so AWS isn't going to be banning them any time soon.

Facebook doesn't use AWS, and at least attempts to moderate calls to violence.

If this is the bar, then it was met by a coup attempt organized on whatsapp in 2016. There's nothing whatabout about it.

Everything will eventually be considered hate speech. Every idea is offensive to someone.

You can literally see some messages that were on Parler in the articles were Amazon, is banning Parler: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/amazon-p... . That's crazy talk

They've tried to avoid lock-in, specifically mentioning avoiding any Google technologies in their mobile apps. However, they are using Route53 for DNS, Cloudfront as a CDN, and ALB for load balancing, so there are a few commodity services they'll need to swap out.

Good riddance to Parler

>I am praying and hoping that Parler chose to use DynamoDB, Cognito, API GW, lambda functions, SnS//SQS , Cloudwatch etc. :-D

It's only a matter of time before software updates are used for deplatforming too.