1/ This is an important misunderstanding to correct. AWS is not the problem. More importantly, AWS does not hold "the keys to the Internet." Parler could have built their service on their own servers, across multiple providers and datacenters, as others do, but they did not. https://twitter.com/daveyalba/status/1348674438045298690
2/ I have, in my past lives, hosted many websites that were considered fringe or offensive. I helped to run the California Community Colocation Project (CCCP, hah!), and we had our own servers in datacenters with providers who believed they operated below the policy layer.
3/ Parler using AWS was a strategic business mistake. There are myriad providers both in the US and abroad who would provide service to Parler. A combination of those providers would provide technical and policy resilience. I don't care about Parler, but AWS isn't the issue here.
4/ TL;DR: If Gab can figure out how to be online, Parler can.
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