Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
by nautilus12 on Sunday January 10, 2021 @12:32AM
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When you are the main defacto means of deploying web platforms it essentially does amount to cencorship. The irony of the comparison to twitter is that parlor IS trying to be a twitter competitor thus preventing twitter from falling into the same classification of being too big to be non competitive
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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
by ehsankia on Sunday January 10, 2021 @12:38AM
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Except that's not true. Just because they have around 50% (a bit less actually) doesn't mean there aren't hundreds of other options. Hell, you can literally host a website from your own computer from your own house.
If it was an ISP blocking, where more Americans have access to 1 or 2, then you'd have an argument, because it's also near impossible for people to spin off their own personal ISP. But there are hundreds if not thousand of hosting platforms online, and you can spin up your own pretty easily.