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Who Amazon does business with is their own decision. But terminating Parler with such short notice that they had no chance of moving to an alternative without
by throwaway4good 6y ago
Who Amazon does business with is their own decision.
But terminating Parler with such short notice that they had no chance of moving to an alternative without major disruption of their business. Well. That is deliberate destruction.
Without knowing anything about US civil law, I would expect Parler to have a strong case.
- the_pwner224 6y agoThe suit states that Amazon and Parler had a contract which stated that 30 day notice would be given before service termination, and if that's true then this does seem like a strong suit. But the entire text seems really biased and borderline crazy (all that stuff about monopoly/antitrust - since when is AWS even close to a monopoly?) so I wouldn't be surprised if they elided that the contract also allowed for early terminaiton if certain terms were being violated.
- throwaway4good 6y agoHad they been given 30 days, they probably could have moved to Oracle or even had setup their own servers.
- reddog 6y agoThe optics are certainly bad. It looks like the Big Tech Cartel colluded to destroy one of their members closest competitors.
- rtkwe 6y agoThere's a more in depth discussion of the standard AWS contract here where there is a clause allowing immediate termination. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25733333 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25733333