Yeah but that usually means switching from AWS to GCP not, build a data center from scratch oh and by the way nobody from electricians to truckers will work with you because your platform was used to plan a violent attack on America.

Right, so step #1, don't plan a violent attack on America?

Broad accusations aside, don't shift the goalposts.

No one can setup basic infrastructure beyond the datacenter in 24h.

They don't have to build a data center from scratch. Plenty of hosting providers (yes even "cloud" ones) in the country or outside it would take their business in an instant.

They could probably set up hosting in Russia or China though. Just at a slower latency

Yeah, all those liberal electricians and truckers.

I think you're overestimating the ability of many "Silicon Valley darlings" to recover from what happened to Parler. First, at least these days, most Silicon Valley darlings are pretty heavily tied to whatever cloud service that hosts them, so disaster recovery exercises mean spinning up another project in a different AWS availability zone, not moving from AWS to GCP or whatever.

Granted, given Parler's mantra they should have known they would be particularly vulnerable to getting kicked off AWS, but I'm highly skeptical that many Silicon Valley darlings (and I've worked at some) would have been able to spin up something quickly on a completely new hosting platform.

Just curious... in your experience, are most "Silicon Valley darlings" also more apolitical and pragmatic than this CEO's statement seemed to indicate he is? Or do they run the gamut?

Just curious as this was my overall sense when I lived in the Bay Area and it would be consistent with a lot of the corporate "censorship" of various diverse viewpoints that's going on now.

> are most "Silicon Valley darlings" also more apolitical and pragmatic than this CEO's statement seemed to indicate he is?

Yes, but with an important caveat. Most all good business leaders are pragmatic, because if you're not there's a very good chance you won't be a good business leader.

However, Parler's entire raison d'être was as a right wing alternative to Twitter et al (you can say "free speech" alternative all you want, but it's beyond ridiculous to claim Parler's community wasn't extremely hostile to liberals/progressives on the site, to the point that I rarely if ever saw any on there), so it would be expected for him to be quite political as it aligns with the business culture of his company. His problem was that he wanted to make his stand without an adequate technological plan if he had to build everything off the major (and even not-so-major) cloud providers.

This. Absolutely this. We used a second location and provider.

Yes, this is what you're meant to do, but there are plenty of companies that don't (including some multi-billion dollar ones).