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by kristofferR 1985 days ago
It's not a ridiculous argument at all, Cloudflare already did it because the CEO "woke up this morning in a bad mood and decided to kick them off the Internet" [1].

AWS is reportedly considering banning Parler. If this trend continues we'll soon have a completely balkanized internet where everyone lives in their own bubble and is banned from posting their viewpoints in the opposite bubble.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/cloudflares-ceo-...
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courtf 1985 days ago
These comments are hilarious, because people on the right vastly overestimate the size of their presence on the web. The traffic parler generates for AWS is a rounding error.

It's like complaining about shutting down the old chuck e cheese on the interstate.

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bigwavedave 1985 days ago
> people on the right vastly overestimate the size of their presence on the web.

Slightly off topic: This presents an interesting thought exercise- how would that stat be calculated? Does a dev with a github repo, Twitter account, and active account on a discord server have more or less of a presence on the web than a retiree with a Facebook account, two yahoos, and a google profile that frequently comments on the youtube videos they binge watch daily?

Not disputing, just musing.

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kristofferR 1985 days ago
Alexa is one way. TheDonald is the 419th most popular website in America for example.

https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/thedonald.win

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