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Just remember to not complain if eventually the tables are turned and your preferred political team is getting this treatment.


People on the left (and right) have been booted off platforms for years, so I don't know about "eventually".


The systematic suppression through denial of critical infrastructure is pretty novel, though.


Is it? I don't think so.

On the contrary, people have generally been smart enough to not do business with companies that won't want to do business with them (for example, nobody is really sure where the various [\d]chans are hosted, and Pornhub self-hosts). There are any number of actually competent people on the left, the right and orthogonal to politics that aren't visibly getting denied "critical infrastructure" because they simply knew better than to use it in the first place; what we are really witnessing is rather entitled people realising they're not guaranteed a ready-made popular platform (whether for an individual's speech or for an app's deployment). The lack of guarantee of a platform itself is far from news.


The fact is, right wing is present on Twitter, Facebook, reddit just fine.

What is not present are their radical wings, which were kicked away just like leftist violent radicals. Difference is that at least so far, mainstream left is ok with those being kicked.


I absolutely will complain. As parler's members are doing now.

Nobody is saying they have no right to speech. AWS is just saying they don't have the right to speech on their turf.


Once my preferred political team is doing things like violently storming the US Capitol, I'll be happy for them to get this treatment.




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