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Re:Spotify is removing Neil Young’s music after falling out ... by lesuorac on Thursday January 27, 2022 @10:40AM (#30101836)
> but their ability to punish people is incomparably greater and isn't subject to the same restraint as the government's.

If Facebook/Google/Amazon/Cloudflare deny your their services you can still always find a new provider (see Gab). If the government shuts you down, you need to emigrate to start back up.

Sure, its a PIA to re-setup a service meant for AWS not on AWS but that's really the core of AWS's offering. Big Tech is not the grocery store, you will live without twitter, you will not live without food.

The power a corperation has is governed by the Charter that was (now implicitly) granted by the State they're incorperated in. If you think they have too much power in their Charter complain to that state.

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Re:Spotify is removing Neil Young’s music after falling out ... by piaste on Thursday January 27, 2022 @12:26PM (#30103337)
> If you think they have too much power in their Charter complain to that state.

Quite. I loudly support breaking up the megacorps and try to avoid depending on them, for what little I can do as a European citizen.

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