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> AWS et al should be treated as a public utility not bound by a private TOS How ridiculous. Individuals need water, heat, and electricity to survive in the 21
by ojnabieoot 6y ago
> AWS et al should be treated as a public utility not bound by a private TOS
How ridiculous. Individuals need water, heat, and electricity to survive in the 21st century. I would argue they also need a cell phone and internet access.
Individuals do not need cloud computing services. For-profit companies want AWS because they can use it to make money. This is not a good basis to form a utility.
- xvector 6y agoShould Verizon be able to hang up your calls if they don’t like who you’re talking to? Clearly, rights and needs extend beyond the basics of food, water, and shelter. Preventing corporations from dictating what information you’re allowed to access and who you’re allowed to talk to is as essential to a free world as anything else. For better or worse, these “for profit companies” have become the de facto replacement of the town square, and if we cannot have free speech on these platforms then we cannot have free speech at all, practically speaking.