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I will not go into the specifics of ideology or politics, but I will point out that I think your statements are valid but ignore the current reality. Consider

I will not go into the specifics of ideology or politics, but I will point out that I think your statements are valid but ignore the current reality. Consider "Parler": - They were trying to cater to users who were banned from twitter. - They set up services using AWS. AWS Banned them. - They built their own infrastructure to get around the ban. - Google/Apple banned them from their mobile devices so no user could use them. I think the current reality is a bit more complicated than it used to be. Or should be. Perhaps.

Melatonic 4y ago
In all of these cases the real problem is that the US Government is unwilling to enforce the monopoly rules and/or there is a company who has become too big and is now the only source of information. If alternative app stores were more popular (and useable at all on Apple devices) then Apple would not be able to unilaterally ban something. I am not defending Parler specifically here at all - that place is a dumpster fire.