IMO, the move by Apple and Google to remove Parler from their stores is I think much more significant than Facebook and Twitter’s bans, and the move by AWS and Twilio to deny it service is more significant again. B2B suppliers acting as regulators by default.

Apple has been doing this in privacy already - acting as a privacy regulator by default. But does the same now apply to half your tech stack?

There’s a very obvious comparison between Parler’s vendors cutting it off and Visa/MC cutting off Mindgeek, or Cloudflare/8Chan. Are the specific issues narrow/extreme enough that this doesn’t become a generalised trend of de facto regulation from the bottom of the stack?

(To be clear - you can be glad that those sites were taken down/purged while also wondering whose decision it should be)

Meanwhile, the US bounces 'Section230!' around the room again and again, while the EU and UK write new content liability laws that US companies will have to take into account, much like GDPR (and with all the drawbacks and unintended consequences of GDPR). https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/priorities-2019-2024/europe-fit-digital-age/digital-services-act-ensuring-safe-and-accountable-online-environment_en