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To: freeandfreezing
I'm not talking about businesses. I'm talking about individual action. Besides, management's job is to maximize shareholder value. If AWS gets it done for a low cost then it would be a dereliction of fiduciary duty to opt for a higher-priced competitor.

There are zillions of websites and web servers of all shapes and forms in the world. FR may be a Deplorable website but if the current host kicked them off, I can guarantee you there are dozens of alternatives around. To wit: Infowars, Breitbart, Drudge, Twitchy, and Gateway Pundit haven't been eliminated. When we get to that point, ping me.

If I understand it correctly, your argument is that: Big tech has taken it upon itself to sort through all the viewpoints, news, and entertainment, and decide for us what we should read, watch, buy, or even how we should engage in civil society. And they’re doing it all under the shadow of complicated algorithms that make little sense to either the content creators whose livelihood depends on them or the users whose everyday decisions they’re controlling. With this unprecedented power, platforms have both the incentive and the ability to redirect into their own pockets the advertising dollars that once fueled the newspaper business.

When conservatives sound like Al Franken that's when I stop and pause. The "trust me bad stuff, it's coming...so let's have the Justice Depatment or Congress intervene. They will DEFINITELY do a better job than the free market because people can't live without the big tech firms" argument simply isn't satisfying.

64 posted on 06/26/2019 7:13:42 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: DoodleBob
So you think our political system will work just fine if the news and information people get from what appear to be neutral sources is being secretly manipulated to affect the perception of the people looking for information.

OK, good luck with that.

102 posted on 06/27/2019 7:34:42 AM PDT by freeandfreezing
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