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 servic

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.]