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Originally Posted by Parlay Slow
Ok so you aren't actually arguing for any government intervention into this situation, you simply don't agree with the action that Amazon has taken. Got it.
I think every company in FANG with the exception of Netflix should be broken up. That would be government intervention.
Here is the reality. This issue is more about control over the internet than anything, which encompasses speech, privacy, consumer choice, etc etc.
Why is this an issue? Because we've learned, in most cases the best result is when the consumers decide such things. The idea that Parler content is going to cost these other companies advertisers is bullshit. If the consumers of ad products don't want to be associated with Parler, it dies as a viable business outside some niche place where someone has to pay to keep it alive. If consumers of products don't like what they are seeing next to the ads on Parler, they aren't going to use Parler, and ad companies, and people who buy ads are not going to buy them, and Parler dies.
In this situation the consumer decides, not Amazon, Google, Facebook, or Apple. When a relatively few companies decide what's in the best interest of consumers, and that's not actually in the best interest of consumers, but rather the company, the companies are too powerful.