> Do they literally have to buy physical servers and host them on their own property somewhere? That's exactly what companies did not too long ago for this ver

> Do they literally have to buy physical servers and host them on their own property somewhere? That's exactly what companies did not too long ago for this very reason. They wanted full control over the entire stack and yes had physical servers in physical offices. Over time, folks laid off their IT staff and traded away their control for convenience. That's the tradeoff: their house -> their rules, your house -> your rules. > But then how do they get connected to the internet without going through some privately owned ISP that might cut them off? Now that is an insurmountable obstacle and a real problem. For that matter, what if Comcast cut off all of AWS until they banned Parler? It would take years to build a physical cable network. The highways are much more important than the parking lots.