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by AnthonyMouse 216 days ago
> Parler was also kicked off of AWS…

Which reminds us of the difference between AWS and Apple -- Amazon Web Services is the web and the web is an open platform. If AWS denies you, you go sign up at any of their competitors or buy your own servers and plug them into the internet. If Apple denies you, iPhone users can't get your app, and if you go sign up at a competitor or buy your own servers, they still can't get your app.

> As far as X being banned, if you haven’t heard Tim and every other tech CEO bends a knee anytime Trump and conservatives asks him to.

That's because they currently control the government. Now think ahead by more than two days and consider the possibility that the other party might win an election again someday. What should you do right now when you're in control of the government to prevent yourself from getting screwed the next time that happens?
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Unknoob 216 days ago
> If AWS denies you, you go sign up at any of their competitors or buy your own servers and plug them into the internet

And then your ISP kick you out.

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AnthonyMouse 216 days ago
All of them? It's a website, the servers don't have to be in the same place as your bedroom. They don't even have to be in the same country.
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JustExAWS 216 days ago
And then what happens when CloudFare de platforms you? It doesn’t take much to DDOS most websites that aren’t protected by something like CloudFare.
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AnthonyMouse 216 days ago
So now you just have to get deplatformed by Cloudflare, AWS, Fastly, Azure, Radware, Google, Akamai, F5, Imperva and every other DDoS protection company in the world all at the same time while simultaneously suffering from a DDoS attack that never lets up or your site immediately comes back.

Meanwhile a DDoS attack is a crime, so Apple doing something with the equivalent effect is now something you're equating with the commission of a crime.

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JustExAWS 215 days ago
No the Supreme Court said a long time ago that a company has “no duty to deal”. Meaning it doesn’t have to do business with anyone it doesn’t want to.
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AnthonyMouse 215 days ago
But you don't want to do business with Apple, you only want to do business with your own customers who have iPhones.
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