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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by stale2002 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @11:03PM (#25709728)
> you cannot force a company to host your content if they choose not to.

Thats actually not true. There are numerous businesses that are absolutely forced to distribute your content, even if they don't like it.

The obvious example is the phone network, and other common carriers. There are a whole set of laws that do indeed force these companies to distribute your content.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by pixl97 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @11:22PM (#25709958)
What we call carriers or other monopoly service providers (think power and water, possibly ISP).

Are you going to take the next step and consider AWS, Twitter, and Facebook monopoly carriers or service providers? Under their current definitions they are not and can cut ties with you for what ever reason they want (barring protected class issues I assume).

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