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True. But there's nothing stopping Parler from running their own servers either. There's many controversial physical businesses in the US that would have troubl

True. But there's nothing stopping Parler from running their own servers either. There's many controversial physical businesses in the US that would have trouble renting. But nothing stops them from buying their own land. That's the issue with Parler hosting. With hosting, you're digitally renting.

BitwiseFool 6y ago
It's more complicated than that because other companies that aren't related to hosting decided to refuse service to Parler. Mastercard, Twilio, various Law Firms, and others. The truth is that running any service of scale requires dozens of other companies from other industries.
- throwaway189262 6y ago
  True. And most companies would decide it wasn't economical to run such a controversial site at scale. But this is being painted as "monopolies against free speech", and it's not. There's hundreds, maybe thousands of hosting companies. At least dozens of ways to take payments. Thousands of law firms. I think everyone is in agreement that big tech has too much influence. But big tech isn't what's keeping Parler off the web. It's not "leftists" either. It's legal liability for things like the capital riots. Legal liability, aka the threat of government is what's keeping Parker offline. Not big tech. All the US companies are just falling in line, protecting themselves from lawsuits and expensive court cases
trident5000 6y ago
The biggest issue is really the app stores. If hosting keeps consolidating the way it is, it will be on par in future years. And the reason Parler didn't build its own servers is because its massively expensive to do so. So expensive that its a non-starter rather than an inconvenience. Giving preferential treatment to some startups but not others to cut the corner on hosting by dominant players which determines winners and losers is still not a free market.
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BitwiseFool 6y ago

It's more complicated than that because other companies that aren't related to hosting decided to refuse service to Parler. Mastercard, Twilio, various Law Firms, and others. The truth is that running any service of scale requires dozens of other companies from other industries.

throwaway189262 6y ago
True. And most companies would decide it wasn't economical to run such a controversial site at scale. But this is being painted as "monopolies against free speech", and it's not. There's hundreds, maybe thousands of hosting companies. At least dozens of ways to take payments. Thousands of law firms. I think everyone is in agreement that big tech has too much influence. But big tech isn't what's keeping Parler off the web. It's not "leftists" either. It's legal liability for things like the capital riots. Legal liability, aka the threat of government is what's keeping Parker offline. Not big tech. All the US companies are just falling in line, protecting themselves from lawsuits and expensive court cases

trident5000 6y ago

The biggest issue is really the app stores. If hosting keeps consolidating the way it is, it will be on par in future years. And the reason Parler didn't build its own servers is because its massively expensive to do so. So expensive that its a non-starter rather than an inconvenience. Giving preferential treatment to some startups but not others to cut the corner on hosting by dominant players which determines winners and losers is still not a free market.

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