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First of all, you are painting a false dichotomy. Plenty of people were "de-platformed" in the 90's. AOL, Geocities, MySpace, etc. banned or removed people all

First of all, you are painting a false dichotomy. Plenty of people were "de-platformed" in the 90's. AOL, Geocities, MySpace, etc. banned or removed people all the time for perfectly legal actions. [Random Geocities example https://www.cnet.com/news/geocities-takes-down-site-rating-students/ https://www.cnet.com/news/geocities-takes-down-site-rating-s... ] Second, if you are building your business based on relying on a certain vendor then you should re-build your business. Third, if your business cannot survive on any platform then you may want to re-think your business, but if you still truly love that business then go build it on the decentralized web and put in the hard work to make it work.

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offby37years 6y ago
Contrasting Geocities or MySpace of decades past with coordinated bans from Facebook and Twitter in 2021 (not to mention AWS and Stripe) is knowingly disingenuous and not argued in good faith. Neither were communication monopolies.
- skynet-9000 6y ago
  Nor were they destroying livelihoods and entire businesses across a broad swath of supposedly competing companies. The actions of today seem to have more in common with the union-busting blacklists across large companies of previous centuries. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklist_(employment)#United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklist_(employment)#United_...)
- coderintherye 6y ago
  The OP very specifically stated that this didn't happen in the 90s. Facebook and Twitter didn't exist in the 90s, Geocities and MySpace did. Thus why the examples are from that era.