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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by Ajedi32 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @11:18PM (#25709909)
ISPs are businesses too, so that's not really the relevant distinction here. Why would you be okay with AWS deciding not to do business with you based on something you said, but not your ISP? Seems rather arbitrary to me.
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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by lostcolony on Sunday January 10, 2021 @12:55AM (#25711059)
"(I support...) As well as the net being a need to operate in society."

That's why. Access to a company's compute resources is not a need. Further, there are options, many different cloud vendors with different T&Cs, different allowed things, different jurisdictions, cultural expectations, etc. If I manage to break the T&Cs to all of them, that's kind of on me, and doesn't preclude me from having access to compute resources (I just have to buy them).

The internet? I've got one ISP option. And without it, I'm cut off from a large part of what it means to function in this day and age.

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