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Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support by joering2 on Monday January 11, 2021 @02:26PM (#25734835)
Fun fact: I spoke with two of my good buddies one up high Amazon another at Twitter. The fellow from twitter told me they will never suspend Trump because despite what he says, Twitter makes few million dollars daily (!!) off of his feed. The reason you see him being booted out is because my buddy from Amazon told me they may be ready to drop Twitter as a client altogether (mostly because of Trump) and the way their contract is designed is that Twitter would still be up for tens of millions of (now unfulfilled) hosting contract fees. And that something they won’t digest. So really the decision to boot Trump had nothing to do with freedom of speech - its AWS who thretened to withdraw, and Twitter folks did some simple math and realized the loss from AWS contract would cost more than gains from RealDonaldTrump feed.
Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support by Daishiman on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:11PM (#25735779)
This is speculation by an employee who clearly doesn't have power to make the associated business decisions.
Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support by lodovic on Monday January 11, 2021 @02:33PM (#25734987)
That math, combined with the drop in stock price, does not add up.