[stevewatson301]

Except for the fact that hosting Wikileaks and Parler with the content in question was always legally contentious.

What Kiwifarms or The Daily Stormer hosted was sufficiently odious (in my view at least), it is disingenuous to suggest that the content is at the same level as what Amazon took action against.

[shitlord]

All of those sites are toxic customers. Continuing to host them will draw the government's ire.

For Parler, the Jan 6 Committee would have inundated Amazon with subpoenas for internal documents and demanded testimony from executives. It's understandable why Parler was deplatformed so many times: because nobody likes government scrutiny. The risk is clearly greater than the reward.

I'm not saying that this was the right decision for society, but I understand where they're coming from, and these companies should be transparent about their motivations.

[sophacles]

So why aren't those sites on Amazon right now? Seriously, if Amazon is such an amazing bastion of allowing that disgusting content, why are KiwiFarms and the Daily Stormer not happily up and running on AWS with CloudFront?