Yeah, there are three large ones in US: AWS, Azure and GCP.
And considering that Google banned the app GCP is also out of the question.
BTW. You know that the largest cloud provides in the world are also the ones I mentioned above?
There is only Alibaba Cloud that is outside US and all the rest are just small businesses (that might just resell what the big three is providing).
And what would be next? Let's block the "new Parler" on the DNS or routing level - build yourself a new internet?
I hate far right wing and also hate far left wing, but I will protect both right to speak.
You don't need a cloud provider to host a website, and there are cloud providers outside of AWS, Azure and GCP. Oracle, IBM, and probably still hundreds of shared hosting providers. At the end of the day you can also setup bare metal servers with your own fiber connection. It might be a little extra work/cost but to describe AWS, Azure, and GCP as the only ways to host a website is disingenuous.
1) Oracle also provides Cloud infrastructure. And Larry Ellison has hosted fundraisers for Donald Trump. Perhaps Parler should talk to Oracle.
2) Smaller providers like Digital Ocean are in fact not reselling the larger services, but you’re right that folks like Heroku are based on AWS.
3) They all have the right to speak. But private enterprises also have the right to decide for themselves if they want to do business with them. That too is a freedom of expression. It’s unclear to me why you think the far left or far rights freedom should supersede the moderates freedoms.
I think the next argument that you’re going to make is well these tech companies are monopolies and therefore the government needs to regulate them in a way that ensures they are platforms for even the extreme left and right to speak.
But they aren’t monopolies. AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle, Digital Ocean.
Sure, there are only a handful of news networks in the US, just like there are only a handful of cloud infrastructure providers. But the first amendment doesn’t guarantee that everyone gets their own hour on the nightly news, and it doesn’t force private corporations in general to do business with all comers.
I don’t have to invite QAnon into my house, and I certainly don’t need to bake QAnon a wedding cake. And neither do AWS, Azure or Digital Ocean.
> I don’t have to invite QAnon into my house, and I certainly don’t need to bake QAnon a wedding cake. And neither do AWS, Azure or Digital Ocean.
OK, but first you don't know if it is QAnon and second, are you also allowed not to bake wedding cake for a black couple, or maybe for Jewish one?
It is your freedom, right? So where is the line you can't cross?
For me it is: if you open business you have to deal with everyone, sorry. If you don't like it, don't open a business.
You just need to follow the law, if courts say that "you can't sell wedding cakes to QAnon" you follow that, but until there is such law...
And considering that Google banned the app GCP is also out of the question.
BTW. You know that the largest cloud provides in the world are also the ones I mentioned above? There is only Alibaba Cloud that is outside US and all the rest are just small businesses (that might just resell what the big three is providing).
And what would be next? Let's block the "new Parler" on the DNS or routing level - build yourself a new internet?
I hate far right wing and also hate far left wing, but I will protect both right to speak.