[DJHenk]

> Why is discord any different than other platforms like office365 or AWS? Do you feel the same about companies using those platforms as well?

The difference is that Microsoft and AWS don't take on an active role in moderating what happens between the company and its users.

But yes, in a way they are similar and I do feel uneasy each time we take on a dependency on some AWS-specific feature where we could easily have build the component to be independent.

No one else seems to care though. Even worse, the CEO wants us to dig deep into AWS, because that somehow will make the customers trust us more.

[cudgy]

Didn’t AWS pull the rug out from under a fledgling, but increasingly popular, social media site that never recovered from their actions “after the platform was deemed to be both "unwilling and unable" to address extremist speech”?

https://www.newsweek.com/amazon-web-services-parler-lawsuit-...

[morkalork]

>a fledgling, but increasingly popular, social media site

Aww, so innocent sounding. AWS was such a big bully in terminating their relationship with that client. It's not like anybody died as a result of that extremist speech they were popularising, right?

[Aerbil313]

You are saying it’s okay for companies to intervene and censor if they deem it necessary.

[spurgu]

You sound like one of those people who think governments should ban encryption because pedophiles use it.