[ttt0]

I'm "dodging" the NFL example, because again, I do not care about NFL. At all. They can be forced to keep Colin or not, pick whatever answer you want. It's has nothing to do with it. And nothing has shifted, I'm still talking about:

> banks, domain registrars, payment processors, cloud services, DDOS protection services etc.

If you expect me to come up on a spot with a bunch of legalspeak to precisely define what would be the target of such legislation(s), it's not going to happen as I am not a lawyer. If you disagree with my opinion and you think that tech companies like the ones listed above and most importantly the banks should be able to just arbitrarily shut down anyone they dislike in the era of Covid, just say so. But don't give me that hairsplitting in an attempt to portray it as something that's either impossible or "illogical" to do, as it's simply not true and this entire argument is just stupid, if not dishonest. It's just semantics.

[yorwba]

> tech companies like the ones listed above and most importantly the banks should be able to just arbitrarily shut down anyone they dislike

Yes. If you want to be served by good companies who genuinely value you as a customer because they view doing business with you as beneficial, that's the easiest way to get there.

The alternative is bad companies providing the worst possible service they legally can to customers they don't really want because the law forces them to, which makes it more difficult for good companies to compete with them for market share.

But if the bad companies arbitrarily refuse to do business with anyone they dislike, the rejected customers will go to the good companies instead, which helps them grow and improve their service.

Note that this is exactly what happened with Parler: "bad" AWS refused them, so they went to a "good" hoster instead.

[ttt0]

> If you want to be served by good companies who genuinely value you as a customer because they view doing business with you as beneficial, that's the easiest way to get there.

We are already here. Generally speaking this is most often true when the client is forced to use certain services, not the other way around. Like public healthcare or public institutions in general. On the other hand, in Europe my bank is legally obligated to provide me a basic service and they treated me very nicely whenever I had any problems, I can't complain. Also we can circle back to the Google example - they treat everyone like garbage precisely because they can arbitrarily shut down anyone, anytime, for no reason at all.

> Note that this is exactly what happened with Parler: "bad" AWS refused them, so they went to a "good" hoster instead.

Almost everyone, if not everyone, does the same thing. Parler will either have to become just a second Twitter or they will be kicked off their new hosting too.

[yorwba]

> in Europe my bank is legally obligated to provide me a basic service and they treated me very nicely

Most likely you're not the kind of customer they'd rather not be doing business with.

> they treat everyone like garbage precisely because they can arbitrarily shut down anyone

Do you expect them to treat people they'd prefer to shut down better than garbage if they weren't allowed to shut them down?

> Parler will either have to become just a second Twitter or they will be kicked off their new hosting too.

Is there nobody among Parler's millions of users who'd be able and willing to host them so they don't have to worry about alignment of interests anymore?

[ttt0]

> Do you expect them to treat people they'd prefer to shut down better than garbage if they weren't allowed to shut them down?

Yes, because they would at least have to come up with a valid reason for refusing you a service. You won't just wake up one day to see everything completely gone, without any explanation.

> Is there nobody among Parler's millions of users who'd be able and willing to host them so they don't have to worry about alignment of interests anymore?

Maybe there is, I don't know. But it doesn't end on hosting. Even if you manage to successfully keep your hosting, someone else will come after you. Like the domain registrar, payment processor, DDOS protection and the final bosses - Visa and MasterCard.

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    I'm "dodging" the NFL example, because again, I do not care about NFL. At all

Never asked if you did. It's a perfect example that you can't argue against.

    I'm taking about regulating the tech industry

Does the NFL count as a tech company? They have $91B market cap and actively develop new tech.

Are banks the "tech" industry? No, of course not. So you move the goalposts back to "just the tech companies!" when you lose.

[ttt0]

As you're just trolling at this point, this will be the last thing I'm going to say.

Your example is not "perfect", it's stupid. No, NFL doesn't count as a tech industry and it's not in scope of what I want to regulate. I told you what types of services should be regulated since the very beginning, but you just keep arguing semantics whether the banks are a part of tech industry or not. I'm not even talking about Twitter or Facebook here and these are the tech companies. No, banks aren't tech industry either. The definition of a "tech company" doesn't really matter in what I'm arguing for. It was to very roughly describe what I mean. And there is nothing else I can do if you're unable to argue in good faith.