"Because it's hard to impossible to get alternate services for roads, water and electricity, i.e common carriers." You are omitting telephone service, which is

"Because it's hard to impossible to get alternate services for roads, water and electricity, i.e common carriers." You are omitting telephone service, which is also a common carrier despite being arguably more competitive than the Big 3 cloud providers. That's where I personally would come down. This decision is ridiculous; social media companies are highly competitive. But I am much, much less comfortable with AWS kicking off Parler.