AWS repeatedly warned Parler about posts urging murder

Post by JamesBarney » Wed, Jan 13, 2021, 4:54 PM UTC

dgellow wrote: post #65

JamesBarney wrote: post #63

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I think Amazon the entity is exactly the right person to decide who their customers are and what their contractual obligations are to those customers. If I ran a SaaS I definitely wouldn't want to submit a form to some government entity and wait 3 months for some bureaucrat to decide whether or not I can stop serving a customer that I am contractually allowed to stop serving.

I get your point, and understand your position. For my SaaS I also wouldn't want to deal with something like Parler. That being said, I don't personally believe that your analogy of your (or my own) SaaS platform is that relevant. The difference here is that Amazon could be considered a major infrastructure provider. It has around 30% of the cloud market share, which puts it in a very powerful category if they have t…

Post by gfodor » Wed, Jan 13, 2021, 5:04 PM UTC

JamesBarney wrote: post #59

gfodor wrote: post #50

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I'll admit the use of 'unilateral' here is probably poor, I don't know the proper one. These companies exert monopoly power in the markets they are in. Decisions made by companies which are monopolies are "unilateral-ist" because once a small number of them make a decision together (perhaps colluding) then it leaves no recourse for the person or group they are deciding against. Mentioned elsewhere, the process we sho…

Banning content moderation unless you have a judge's order seems like it could be problematic. If this law existed could dang still ban people for people for being a-holes and not following site guidelines or would he need a court order?

Post by vel0city » Wed, Jan 13, 2021, 5:19 PM UTC

gfodor wrote: post #72

vel0city wrote: post #66

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AWS has somewhere around 30% marketshare in a market with well more than dozens of players. I have a hard time seeing it as a monopoly.

I'm referring to monopoly power - which doesn't mean a singular entity. A good thought exercise to gauge this in this situation specifically is if it's only incidental that they were on AWS. If they were on Azure or GCP I think we can assume the same result would have occured.

Post by destroyHN » Wed, Jan 13, 2021, 5:23 PM UTC

Post by hnburnsy » Wed, Jan 13, 2021, 5:25 PM UTC

kmfrk wrote: post #13

Resolved URL because something in my adblocker keeps me from being forwarded, UTM tags removed: https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.294664... Mods can add a [.pdf] in title, perhaps. :)