Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support
by nicmccool on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:41PM
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Youtube has paid staff whose sole duty is to remove videos that violate their TOS. Parler does not. That is the distinction AWS used in there reasonings to terminate service.
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Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support
by nix23 on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:49PM
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>TOS
That's a private rule and with Amazon as big as it is, we need to have a discussion if a TOS is even legal, if you take a blind eye on that, nothing stands in the way that big company's take over everything, if you want such a world...well then welcome to cyberpunk.
Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support
by Johnny555 on Monday January 11, 2021 @04:11PM
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For large customers, the TOS is not just a click through agreement, it's actually signed as a part of an overall MSA.
I don't see how you could argue that a TOS is not legal when both parties signed and agreed to it.
Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support
by nix23 on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @06:03AM
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>I don't see how you could argue that a TOS is not legal when both parties signed and agreed to it.
Because it clashes often with existing law, many TOS's you can simply ignore (at least in europe) and yes even when you signed it. A TOS does not stand above existing law.