I think there's a useful divide between "what should a platform allow" vs "what should an app store allow" vs "what should fundamental infrastructure for the we

I think there's a useful divide between "what should a platform allow" vs "what should an app store allow" vs "what should fundamental infrastructure for the web allow" While I think Apple and Google are within their rights to remove an entry point to an app that has incited violence over the past week, I'm not sure I feel the same about Amazon / aws (or GCP if it had been hosted on Google). If you remove Facebook from the app store, we could all still access the web frontend, just not the app. Banning a site from ec2, though, feels more like Cloudflare removing ddos protection. I don't know what was on parler. I don't know how bad it was. My thesis, though (and I think stratechery/Ben Thompson would agree), is that Amazon should require a much higher bar before banning something from ec2 than either Apple or Google do. Fwiw, I don't think this is "coordinated" so much as big companies responding simultaneously to potential (or already ignited) PR fires