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Re:Stripe bans Trump campaign by gkanai on Sunday January 10, 2021 @10:42PM (#25724155)
> AWS and Visa feel like the former, though they are legally the latter.

Back in the day, you had to rack your own servers in your own data centers and manage them yourself. Had any of these 'free speech' services spent any time considering how reliant they were on 3rd party services, they should never have engaged those companies in the first place.

There was a day when you had to build your own servers to host your own websites. Not that long ago, imo.

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Re:Stripe bans Trump campaign by neartheplain on Sunday January 10, 2021 @10:53PM (#25724251)
Gab does this- they run their own servers and payment processing. For better or for worse, they have remained online and seen a huge uptick in traffic [0] while Parler has been kicked off every cloud vendor. I suspect Gab will displace Parler as the QAnon crowd's platform of choice.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/gab-reports-growth-in-the-mi...

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