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> Between those 3 (or 4) Cloud infrastructure providers they have a huge chunk of the market. AWS themselves estimate that all four of them only have 4% of com
by ashtonkem 6y ago
> Between those 3 (or 4) Cloud infrastructure providers they have a huge chunk of the market.
AWS themselves estimate that all four of them only have 4% of companies, and it’s estimated that they host 8.9% of websites in general. That’s not a “huge” portion of the market.
> Even if they did, AWS alone kicking a webpage/app out for non-technical censorship reasons, is enough to cause huge migration and other costs to the app. Enough to obliterate a webpage/app without much runway.
Yeah, that’s a known issue. But it’s not a free speech problem; it’s part of the tradeoff of using a platform like AWS. There’s a reason why all kinds of businesses have an AWS contingency plan; Parler not having one is their problem, not society’s.
> AWS shouldn't be involved in such decisions, the same way we ask telcos for net neutrality.
... there is literally an entire section of why Net Neutrality is good, and why Net Neutrality shouldn’t cover AWS.