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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 Firm
by 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 agoTrue. 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