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Buzzfeed: Amazon is booting Parler off AWS, its web hosting service, knocking the pro-Trump social network offline (more info)
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Posted on 01/09/2021 6:26:58 PM PST by janetjanet998

Edited on 01/10/2021 2:52:21 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

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To: janetjanet998

Big Tech seems anxious to cut off or hinder communications right now and in the run-up to Usurpation Day, January 20. That’s, uh, interesting.


181 posted on 01/09/2021 7:47:24 PM PST by Hetuck ("We will Barry you" - Nikita Khrushchev)
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To: FenwickBabbitt
When e-commerce first started people would comparison shop at brick and mortar stores then buy online. Just use Amazon like an old brick and mortar store. Comparison shop see which vendors have their own web sales then buy directly from the vendor.
182 posted on 01/09/2021 7:47:37 PM PST by radmanptn
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Who’d stop them?

Who’d even know? It would be blacked out and the fact checkers would says it was a conspiracy theory.

183 posted on 01/09/2021 7:47:47 PM PST by riri (Hope is not a strategy at this point- Sam Andrews)
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To: kingu

Well my concern is this I own a hosting company. I was considering firing up servers at AWS. But what I’m wondering is where does this stop. We saw the problem with the Covid drugs. So what if they decide they don’t like homeopathic medicine because it’s quackery and their opinion. What if they decide to take down CBD oil sites. What if they decide the insurance sites should not be up because insurance can’t be sold across state lines. The list of problems here is endless and now Pandoras box has been opened. I am very surprised honestly the AWS decided to go down this slippery slope because they have a different dog in the hunt per se than Twitter. Twitter has content Google has content but darkening things based on your political ambitions or positions means we now have problems within hosting companies. So where does the stop that’s the question I have where does it stop


184 posted on 01/09/2021 7:47:49 PM PST by genxer ( )
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To: janetjanet998

Ironically, as of this writing, Parler is still up, but Gab is down...


185 posted on 01/09/2021 7:48:02 PM PST by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: genxer
I hope a lot of our old timer start to migrate this way and come home

They are shutting down free speech. You don't think FreeRepublic is on their chopping block?

186 posted on 01/09/2021 7:48:41 PM PST by ozarkgirl ( )
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To: RatsDawg
Tyranny on the move now....and Bidens not even if office yet!
187 posted on 01/09/2021 7:49:28 PM PST by caww (God is still on His throne....Trust Him especially when we don't understand!)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie
Just went to gab...its down

Super slow response for the last few hours. Either they're getting DDOS or the new influx is crushing them.
188 posted on 01/09/2021 7:49:39 PM PST by farming pharmer (fork you :(){ :|:& };:)
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To: taxcontrol

Some of these people use aWS as their infrastructure. I am a small hosting company and have been battling this for years


189 posted on 01/09/2021 7:49:45 PM PST by genxer ( )
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To: janetjanet998
"Parler, a social network favored by conservative politicians and extremists, was used to help plan and coordinate the January 6 attempted coup on Washington D.C."

Never did like buzz feed, now look how they spun the Jan 6 planning thingie.

190 posted on 01/09/2021 7:49:50 PM PST by Syncro (Facts is Facts)
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To: Responsibility2nd

What was Trump to do? He tried to get that 240 bill (or whatever it is) cancelled. DC was NOT on board. They want to shut down free speech and that would include Free Republic.


191 posted on 01/09/2021 7:50:25 PM PST by ozarkgirl ( )
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To: Steely Tom

Amazon holds contracts with 17+ intelligence agencies and have servers in AWS that are isolated and not part of standard business “AWS Availability Zones”, so traffic cannot be compromised. These contracts run out of Seattle are worth ‘Billions’ of dollars, as the following article confirms what I know personally. There is no way Amazon will allow the US Government contract to be compromised over Parler.

https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2020/11/20/microsoft-aws-among-c2e-cloud-contract-awardees.html

Now Amazon, Facebook and Twitter have decided to edit their content, they have become a Publisher and MUST adhere to ALL rules. Therefore, ANY content found on their servers should also be available for legal discovery and can be forced to remove content, including PORN, Terrorist or threats against the State (just a few examples).


192 posted on 01/09/2021 7:50:37 PM PST by dragonblustar (Matthew 24:10 And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another. )
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To: ozarkgirl

I’ve been here since Clinton was the president. They have tried and tried and tried and Jim has done a great job in setting up a system that they couldn’t come after that way. Now he may have changed things through the years and I don’t know. But in the end I think after 20 year If there was a way to take this down it would’ve already happened because it’s been tried


193 posted on 01/09/2021 7:52:05 PM PST by genxer ( )
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To: janetjanet998

It begins :-(


194 posted on 01/09/2021 7:52:48 PM PST by VictoryGal (Never give up, never surrender! )
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To: IgnorerOfLiberals
Go back to DU.

You're supposed to call me a troll first. Them's the rules.

"You're a troll! Go back to DU!"

195 posted on 01/09/2021 7:53:43 PM PST by Drew68
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To: snarkytart; caww
"what tech wars? They’re all on the same side."

Exactly. At least, where it ultimately matters, in the infrastructure itself.

IF "our" side is ever going to be free of them as far as anything tel-com and internet goes...we're going to need at least one Tier 1 provider.
From that point, can free speech friendly data centers - server farms - providers - web sites - apps be relatively free from leftist anti rule of law woke-ism.
That is, until the now fully in control leftist politicians direct their department of "justice" under garland to sue them into woke compliance.

This last election steal has wide ranging ramifications many (most?) have only just begun to realize.

196 posted on 01/09/2021 7:53:58 PM PST by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: Shortstop7

Yes, it is. ....and imagine Jill Biden currently being fitted for designer outfits.....sickening!


197 posted on 01/09/2021 7:54:41 PM PST by caww (God is still on His throne....Trust Him especially when we don't understand!)
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To: MinorityRepublican
My Prime was set to renew six days from now.

It just got canceled.

I'll find another way to watch my reruns of The Dukes of Hazzard.

198 posted on 01/09/2021 7:55:03 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain (#notmypedophile)
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To: janetjanet998

Yeah I signed up for it to get free shipping

Realized 10 months later they had been charging me 10 bucks a month, from my credit card, which I never authorized

So my “free shipping” cost me about 100 bucks for a $20 purchase.

Told my CC company, and they reversed all the charges

Never did use the prime streaming thing, I don’t stream stuff it’s too expensive.

Plus what they offer to watch is junk anyway.

Oh and I only buy stuff online that says “Not available from Amazon”


199 posted on 01/09/2021 7:56:08 PM PST by Syncro (Facts is Facts)
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To: dragonblustar

Amazon holds contracts with 17+ intelligence agencies and have servers in AWS that are isolated and not part of standard business “AWS Availability Zones”, so traffic cannot be compromised. These contracts run out of Seattle are worth ‘Billions’ of dollars, as the following article confirms what I know personally. There is no way Amazon will allow the US Government contract to be compromised over Parler.

https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2020/11/20/microsoft-aws-among-c2e-cloud-contract-awardees.html

Now Amazon, Facebook and Twitter have decided to edit their content, they have become a Publisher and MUST adhere to ALL rules. Therefore, ANY content found on their servers should also be available for legal discovery and can be forced to remove content, including PORN, Terrorist or threats against the State (just a few examples).

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this should be used to get them but it won’t

the R’s AGREE with them.


200 posted on 01/09/2021 7:57:42 PM PST by snarkytart
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