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I would argue that there's no point appealing to authority since what we are going for changes with the times, but there's a fundamental difference between repr
by chrischen 6y ago
I would argue that there's no point appealing to authority since what we are going for changes with the times, but there's a fundamental difference between reprisal and aid. Say you wanted to host a website that was explaining the evils of cloud hosting, and you did this on EC2 (AWS). Amazon has every right to have in their terms clauses that disallow such content which they do not agree with. If they do host it they are doing damage to themselves, and if they do not host it they are simply not supporting an attack on cloud hosting. The act of choosing not to engage in business is not an attack in itself.
- peytn 6y agoI guess, I mean that’s the tails-you-lose of it. It does feel as though somebody’s bought up all the printing presses, and in the face of scrutiny for doing so is disrupting swaths of the opposition party’s press apparatus as the incoming party takes over. I mean Amazon isn’t any ol’ business, but one with great reach facing historic threats of regulation. It just doesn’t feel like the right thing for our republic. It feels like foul play, and I guess my recourse is at the ballot box. I guess I think the points raised here and elsewhere about what businesses can do are specious. We still try to keep things fair.