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A comment on Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler. Parent comment

Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by ComodoHacker on Sunday January 10, 2021 @03:21AM (#25712273)
>Nobody predicted a private company would get to that point

Not quite, the East India Company is a counter example.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by gerikson on Sunday January 10, 2021 @05:47AM (#25713316)
The example of the EIC was used as an argument against the British Crown by proponents of American independence. Source: Dalrymple's The Anarchy.
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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by throwaway3699 on Monday January 11, 2021 @10:40AM (#25730355)
The East India Company was processing (and reading) the mail of hundreds of millions of people, and freely choosing who is allowed to continue sending mail?
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