Parler’s de-platforming shows the exceptional power of cloud providers

Re:Parler’s de-platforming shows the exceptional power of cl... by erichocean on Monday January 18, 2021 @10:59PM (#25829849)

Let me put it this way: I can give Amazon zero attention and still know what they are going to do, simply by paying attention elsewhere.

Can you? I suspect you could too. We all can, none of this is a secret.

So…is Amazon a node in the political decision making apparatus if you can ignore them entirely and still predict their behavior? I would argue that is strong evidence Amazon is not a decision node when it comes to political decision making, they are a follower node. I would argue that all mainstream US businesses are follower nodes.

Non-political business questions? Sure. I agree US businesses like Amazon are mostly free to act independently. Shutting down Parler, though, was a political decision. An expression of power. In that realm, Amazon was not the one in charge.

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Re:Parler’s de-platforming shows the exceptional power of cl... by snowwrestler on Monday January 18, 2021 @11:21PM (#25829963)

I think your attempt at categorizing political vs non-political decisions is arbitrary and harming the utility of your computing analogy.

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Re:Parler’s de-platforming shows the exceptional power of cl... by erichocean on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @12:01AM (#25830171)

Perhaps you are right and there is no political solution.

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Re:Parler’s de-platforming shows the exceptional power of cl... by erichocean on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @06:48AM (#25832511)

Eric Weinstein discussed this overall topic on The Realignment Ep. 70: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbSLMtZi2dc

Specifically around the 33 minutes mark.

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