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by saghm 1987 days ago
> This is meaningless without comparing it to how many instances of hate speech or calls for violence exist on competing sites like Twitter

Is Twitter hosted on AWS? I thought they had their own servers, but I could be wrong

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That's not really the point. It's a question of whether the expectation is reasonable. If Twitter and Facebook can't do it then it's strong evidence that it's not.
> That's not really the point. It's a question of whether the expectation is reasonable

That’s a made up point, though. The AWS contract makes no mention of “reasonable effort” or anything like that.

Yes, it is worthwhile to compare moderation on Parler to that of FB etc, but it has no bearing on whether Amazon had the right to terminate Parler’s contract, which they absolutely did. Within the context of that discussion the comparison to FB and Twitter is just whataboutism. They aren’t Parler and they aren’t hosted by AWS.

Twitter is not party to two-party contracts between some other two parties. This point is easy to understand and difficult to dispute.