my friend, how will they melt away? It just was'nt imagined.
If we step back to 2018 - No BLM, no capitol riots -- no one would even imagine a AWS pulling the plug.
As a startup, it used to be a no-brainer to start on AWS first.
The advice given then was not get entired by AWS goodies that locks one to the platform, but one never thought much of using EC2
What i started arguing for was that there will be an interface on top of EC2, that would enable one to provision just as fast on Azure, Google or on bare metal.
In this case, one can still get on AWS, and if you have a problem, be able to transition to your own server as fast as you can.
this is obviously not in AWS or Google's interest, so needs to be a community driven open source effort, with the entrenched players constantly trying to break their APIs where possible.
> If we step back to 2018 - No BLM, no capitol riots -- no one would even imagine a AWS pulling the plug.
There has always been content which you cannot host on Amazon. Prior to Parler, Amazon booted Wikileaks, Amazon also doesn't host pornography, there are other carve-outs as well.
You are highly indexed on this one event, but it's not unique or particularly eye opening. 8chan suffered a similar fate for exactly the same reason as Parler.
If your business relies on hosting certain types of content, your options are greatly limited (and have been for almost from the start). This kind of speech is more toxic than pornography and it's treated as such. Business owners are capable of making this kind of distinction, or they can hire legal to help with it.
i have been twitter, FB, parler and 8chan. For some reason, never checked out gab.
have you been on all of this?
I sincerely can tell you that parler is no worse than twitter. 8chan - different story.
hence, unfair comparison - that it is hate speech (which even though 1A protects it, we can agree that there is a line that could be crossed - lets not argue about that line here)
my contention is that in parler (or a future app's case) -- it may not be hate speech, but 'speech we hate' -- since that definition is made by same entities.
I want to know if you are just following what you heard from media, or first-hand.
If we step back to 2018 - No BLM, no capitol riots -- no one would even imagine a AWS pulling the plug.
As a startup, it used to be a no-brainer to start on AWS first.
The advice given then was not get entired by AWS goodies that locks one to the platform, but one never thought much of using EC2
What i started arguing for was that there will be an interface on top of EC2, that would enable one to provision just as fast on Azure, Google or on bare metal.
In this case, one can still get on AWS, and if you have a problem, be able to transition to your own server as fast as you can.
this is obviously not in AWS or Google's interest, so needs to be a community driven open source effort, with the entrenched players constantly trying to break their APIs where possible.