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I'm getting slightly fatigued with this point of view ("X is a private company and can do what it wants"). If a company reaches a certain size and has a quasi-
by folli 6y ago
I'm getting slightly fatigued with this point of view ("X is a private company and can do what it wants").
If a company reaches a certain size and has a quasi-monopolistic position so that other people or companies depend on it, it starts to have some degree of responsibility towards society that's beyond value maximization for shareholders.
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- ars 6y agoDoes that mean you are against AWS, Google, and Apple shutting down Perler? All of those are large enough, and are quasi-monopolistic to meet your definition.
- TingPing 6y agoOther hosts exist. But Apple shouldn't be allowed to prevent sideloading which makes the app store no longer a monopoly.
- LatteLazy 6y agoI'm not OP, and I'm not a trumper or Conservative but I am 110% into free speech and I don't like the parler ban. That said, it's really not equivalent. There are 101 other services if AWS turn you down. You can still access the parler site from an apple/android phone too. On android you can still install the app, just not via the play store. Censorship is incidious because many people support at least some. So you convince liberals to support banning parler and conservatives to support banning porn payments (or whatever). And they're both poorer for it. We should all be agreeing on this, not being fractional... We should all be uniting in our call to get Visa , Mastercard, Apple, Google and a dozen others declared utilities. Rather than arguing over which problem is biggest, solve them all.
- manigandham 6y agoExcept that ban was clear collusion by Google, Apple and Amazon against a single organization. It's concerning when an alternative no longer just means an alternative of the same service but also the entire infrastructure stack. We've seen similar situations during the digital piracy era of the early 2000s.
- Bakary 6y agoI don't see the point of closing Parler. It was a perfect platform to monitor those people and gather them in the same place. Now it will be more difficult.
- commandlinefan 6y agoI honestly can’t think of a better example of the egregious abuse of quasi-monopolistic power than the shutting down of Parler.
- eznzt 6y agoI think the comment you are replying to is meant to be sarcastic.