Amazon is willing to drag the AWS brand through the mud for this? If they boot Parler off now, when are they going to start booting off businesses if an employee makes the wrong tweet?
Yes. Those same business will also face federal anti-terrorism investigations and a suspension of all of their financial transactions through banks and payment processors.
Companies will ask these questions and receive the answer "If you aren't a fascist you've got nothing to fear"
Where have I heard that before?
"Why are you afraid of Obama using drones for the extrajudicial assassinations of US citizens? You're not a terrorist are you?"
"Who cares about the Patriot Act? If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear"
Everybody has something to hide. Hiding something isn't illegal itself.
Bush (R) is dumb Hitler!
Obama (D) is a hero, he never droned anyone, leftist CNN never said anything bad about him!
Trump (R) is Hitler!
Normalfags see it as "deplatforming white domestic terrorists"
How would it impact Amazon negatively? In fact, this bolsters Amazons reputation.
It's also a risk to be vaguely associated with "MAGA white terrorists".
The engineers might want uptime, the boss wants good optics with BLM.
They don't view it as such, and chances are, neither do any of their major competitors (Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Oracle, IBM).
The company already does ideological censorship, especially their retail business. This is nothing new.
Yes. Those same business will also face federal anti-terrorism investigations and a suspension of all of their financial transactions through banks and payment processors.
They are seizing full control.