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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by tgsovlerkhgsel on Sunday January 10, 2021 @01:22AM (#25711343)
> Anyone is free to set up a computer in their basement, install a web server, open up port 80 to the world, and serve to the world whatever blog or forum they want.

Only until their ISP decides to do the same thing Amazon did (or buckles under the DDoS attacks that will happen). Or their registrar or DNS provider, assuming you don't consider domains optional too.

Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by jliptzin on Sunday January 10, 2021 @01:26AM (#25711380)
Do you have examples of ISPs doing this to companies like Parler?
Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by wmf on Sunday January 10, 2021 @01:41AM (#25711508)
Nazi site The Daily Stormer was infamously dropped by GoDaddy, Google, Tucows, Cloudflare, Namecheap, DreamHost, and various others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Stormer#Site_hosting...

8chan was shut down by Cloudflare, Tucows, Voxility and others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8chan#August_2019_removal_from...

I'm surprised these sites haven't been disconnected at the BGP level yet; maybe that will happen this year.

Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by prezjordan on Sunday January 10, 2021 @09:42AM (#25715012)
None of those are ISPs? Fios does not block me from accessing arbitrary IP addresses.
Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by ghthor on Sunday January 10, 2021 @03:50AM (#25712485)
With an attitude like this, you'll be cheering when we get to the gulags. Welcome to fascism, but this time is different.
Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by wmf on Sunday January 10, 2021 @02:18PM (#25718473)
You don't know what my attitude is. Predicting something isn't the same as wanting it to happen.
Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by tpolm on Sunday January 10, 2021 @01:33AM (#25711441)
8chan
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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by tpolm on Sunday January 10, 2021 @02:13AM (#25711797)
For some reason was not banned for that, but for something totally different
Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by nedudal on Sunday January 10, 2021 @05:19AM (#25713119)
you are right it was giving a platform to a mass murderer.
Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by nedudal on Sunday January 10, 2021 @01:37AM (#25711476)
everyone has a limit. for google, amazon, Twitter, Facebook, tik tok, Twitch and reddit. It is the point when there are screams for violence against lawmakers, the vice president, the president elect, the speaker of the house and the speaker of the senate. These are no empty threats as we saw last week and the companies which have the data are seeing plans for more violence being made on their platforms. They know more than we are and they are reacting like this. I think it will get worse in the next days and if there is a coup you are complicit and more important if your intentions in this post are honorable you will try to discuss the exact same thing we are discussing right now and will be shutdown and laughed at.

This is no morale debate anymore your choice is life or death. As a German I think about 1923 the attempted beer house coup in Munich and the lax response to Adolf Hitler and can only shake my heads at people like you.

At least I hope your sentiment comes from a high morale standpoint and not from misdirection as so many are in these threads.

Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by ghthor on Sunday January 10, 2021 @03:51AM (#25712492)
If there we screams for violence then prosecute those people. This is blanket censorship and anti competitive monopoly capitalism. Gear up for the gulags, because that's where this leads.
Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by nedudal on Sunday January 10, 2021 @05:06AM (#25713028)
So in your mind the choice is between gulags and concentration camps and you are saying you want the concentration camps, noted.

I want neither options and behold the screams of people like yourself this is unprecedented that we the people or companies have the power to surpress calls for violence and sedition from a government working on a coup to stop the will of their own people. I am glad that we try it with whatever will come of it because we know from history what will happen if we do not.

If you look at the media outlets left and right they decided to pull trump of the air for much less and we don't see even fox, oan or other right wing media giving him a platform. 90% of the censorship calls are one-sided as well I see no one screaming about parler or thedonald.win banning progressive politicians or users on sight. your bias shows and it's abhorrent.

Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by chefkoch on Sunday January 10, 2021 @04:23AM (#25712743)
Most of the western democracies (all?)except the US don't have that unregulated concept of free speech. I don't see and hear anything about gulags in GB, France or Germany. They just don't have mobs trying to overtrhow the gouvernemnt.
Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by cabraca on Sunday January 10, 2021 @04:36AM (#25712841)
I'm sorry to disappoint you. We had something like this in Germany around August [0]. We call them "querdenker" and they are basically a group of neonazis, esoteric people, covid is a hoax people and right wingers.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tUIH3GqGdQ

Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by chefkoch on Sunday January 10, 2021 @06:14AM (#25713506)
I really forgot about these nutbags. But while they are a sure frindge extremists they are far from beeing a risk of overthrowing the gouvernment.