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I am far more concerned by AWS's removal of Parler than any of the social media stuff that's been going on.

0xy 6y ago
ICE spends $100m on AWS: fine Slightly worse Twitter app: axed on short notice What is the strategy of the woke AWS employees pushing for these removals?
- Miner49er 6y ago
  What makes you think employees had anything to do with this? Employees at Amazon don't seem to be that well organized. I would think this decision was made by execs trying to do what is best for themselves and shareholders. I get employees called for it, but I really doubt Parler was pulled primarily because of their complaints.
  - 0xy 6y ago
    Because Twitter and Facebook activist employees drive deplatforming in those organisations. AWS has similar activist employees.
    - dredmorbius 6y ago
      As Parler's management deplatforms dissenting voices.
      - 0xy 6y ago
        I never said it didn't. I'm not a Parler user and don't like the platform but don't think it should be systematically deplatformed in coordinated action by ideologues. It's pretty simple.
kiwidrew 6y ago
Yeah, me too. AWS is a whole lot closer to "essential public infrastructure" than, say, Twitter or Facebook. (Or Zendesk or Twilio or any of the myriad service providers that Parler happened to use.) Where does it end? Can the local utility provider that serves Parler's physical office decided to "deplatform" them and revoke their access to electricity? Can the small handful of Tier 1 transit providers (which together make up "the Internet" as we know it) decide to deplatform a network by refusing to peer with it? [What if they extend that depeering to include any other networks (Tier 2 etc.) which refuse to stop peering with the target network?] Sure, that's just a hypothetical right now, but then again last week "AWS decides to terminate you" was one of those hypothetical but very unlikely risks. How far is this witch hunt going to go? [Sadly, given recent discourse here, I feel compelled to state that I strongly disagree with the content posted on Parler, which was indeed some truly awful stuff.]

0xy 6y ago

ICE spends $100m on AWS: fine Slightly worse Twitter app: axed on short notice What is the strategy of the woke AWS employees pushing for these removals?

Miner49er 6y ago
What makes you think employees had anything to do with this? Employees at Amazon don't seem to be that well organized. I would think this decision was made by execs trying to do what is best for themselves and shareholders. I get employees called for it, but I really doubt Parler was pulled primarily because of their complaints.
- 0xy 6y ago
  Because Twitter and Facebook activist employees drive deplatforming in those organisations. AWS has similar activist employees.
  - dredmorbius 6y ago
    As Parler's management deplatforms dissenting voices.
    - 0xy 6y ago
      I never said it didn't. I'm not a Parler user and don't like the platform but don't think it should be systematically deplatformed in coordinated action by ideologues. It's pretty simple.

kiwidrew 6y ago

Yeah, me too. AWS is a whole lot closer to "essential public infrastructure" than, say, Twitter or Facebook. (Or Zendesk or Twilio or any of the myriad service providers that Parler happened to use.) Where does it end? Can the local utility provider that serves Parler's physical office decided to "deplatform" them and revoke their access to electricity? Can the small handful of Tier 1 transit providers (which together make up "the Internet" as we know it) decide to deplatform a network by refusing to peer with it? [What if they extend that depeering to include any other networks (Tier 2 etc.) which refuse to stop peering with the target network?] Sure, that's just a hypothetical right now, but then again last week "AWS decides to terminate you" was one of those hypothetical but very unlikely risks. How far is this witch hunt going to go? [Sadly, given recent discourse here, I feel compelled to state that I strongly disagree with the content posted on Parler, which was indeed some truly awful stuff.]