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Re:Parler social network sues Amazon for pulling support by gary_0 on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @05:25AM (#25744827)
In terms of the printing press analogy, they were renting printing presses that Amazon owned (because setting up printing presses is expensive). And Amazon said "you're printing too many 'kill all the redheads' flyers, so we're not renting to you anymore". (The printing analogy does break down if Parler also ends up being denied renting physical space in a datacenter.)
Re:Parler social network sues Amazon for pulling support by aldarisbm on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @11:12AM (#25748794)
I appreciate the eli5, but Amazon said:

"We have a clause in your contract that says you shouldnt print 'kill all the x' and you're letting just about anyone print those. We can still rent you servers if you put a content-filtering team into effect"

But Parler didn't.