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How is Jack Dorsey suddenly pulling strings at Apple, Google, and Amazon? What does Amazon care if Twitter does well? Are either Tim Cook or Sundar Pichai secr
by mattnewton 6y ago
How is Jack Dorsey suddenly pulling strings at Apple, Google, and Amazon?
What does Amazon care if Twitter does well? Are either Tim Cook or Sundar Pichai secretly holding significant shares? “Big tech” could collude to make more money (like the time Apple and Google reportedly did to reduce labour costs), I’d certainly buy that. But I don’t understand what is in it for these companies to collude to crush Parler, a company none of the platform companies that removed it compete with.
Twitter’s stock is down since purging one of their largest draws to the site.
Isn’t the simplest explanation here that people are covering their ass? And the examples the article found with 3 retweets are basically a neglible threat?
- bArray 6y ago> What does Amazon care if Twitter does well? Twitter just signed a multi-year contract with Amazon AWS [1] (sorry for the source, but this is really unreported by quite a lot of mainstream media): > "Last month, Defendant Amazon Web Services, Inc. (“AWS”) > and the popular social media platform Twitter signed a > multi-year deal so that AWS could support the daily > delivery of millions of tweets. AWS currently provides > that same service to Parler, a conservative microblogging > alternative and competitor to Twitter," the filing reads. With regards to: > Isn’t the simplest explanation here that people are > covering their ass? Kinda. Big tech is under serious political pressure to enact these changes to remove any platform that Trump may use. I heard (although haven't verified) that Trump made an account on Parler and just a few hours later every service that Parler depend upon abandoned them with minimal notice. This is servers, phone API, lawyers, etc - the entire stack. [1] https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/parler-sues-amazon-antitrust-contract-breach https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/parler-sues-amazon-an...
- mattnewton 6y agoI don’t understand how that is relevant though. Presumably Amazon would just as well sell to Twitter and Parler, if Parler wasn’t opening them up to brand damage? Amazon doesn’t own Twitter and has nothing to gain from not selling to their competitors afaict. And this explains nothing of the Apple and Google deplatforming.
- threatofrain 6y agoAccording to the CEO of Parler, banks and payment vendors, law firms, text and mail services also cancelled on them.