Re:Russia restricts opposition election voting app
by sanp on Sunday September 19, 2021 @08:52AM
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Free speech laws mean nothing of the sort. Free speech also (generally) includes freedom of association. AWS should be Free to not associate with entities who do not meet their stated TOS.
Re:Russia restricts opposition election voting app
by fhgan on Sunday September 19, 2021 @09:30AM
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Supermarkets do not have freedom of association, which is a good thing. Artists and small businesses selling very personal custom services should have freedom of association, but that's it.
What if no one wants to sell you a computer, car, house, food?
Re:Russia restricts opposition election voting app
by jcranmer on Sunday September 19, 2021 @10:32AM
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> Supermarkets do not have freedom of association, which is a good thing.
You're wrong; they do have freedom of association. They're free to choose whose products they do and do not carry, for example. They're also free to deny entrance to anybody for almost any reason (except for an enumerated class of prohibited reasons).
Re:Russia restricts opposition election voting app
by FeepingCreature on Sunday September 19, 2021 @08:50AM
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Street corner, car dealership, soap box, sign printing...
It did NOT mean that for a particular person all street corners were suddenly unavailable. We have many de facto monopolies here: Google prioritizes medium.com nonsense over private sites, app stores are monopolies etc.
So while physical hosting and DNS providers should be available by law anyway, I think due to content discoverability and monopolistic issues the same applies to certain virtual market places.