People get confused about the difference between free expression, and compelling companies to support that expression.
Perhaps Rebekah Mercer, the big money behind them, can buy a data center to house their servers, she has the money to do so. Or she can purchase a cloud/ISP company to house her other properties like Brietbart.
Amazon's been receiving cia, military and other US government contracts for years now.
https://theatlantic.com/article/374632/
https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/10/08/75349/meet-ameri...
https://aws.amazon.com/contract-center/#federal
Amazon took a website off their services critical of the government and incoming administration.
If amazon did this to a company critical of one of their private contract companies, this would be anti-trust behaviour.
The new inception of the Moral Majority did.
Sadly in the alternate reality, people believe tomorrow the "Deep State" will install a regime to take over the country of the "true patriots"...
/s.
edit. DDOS protection against free speech activists aiming to instill the values of free and uncensored speech on the rest of the ungrateful world
Robert Mercer put $10,000,000 into Parler, and they build out a WordPress app. I don't mean to be harsh, and I actually have a special affection for PHP (the first programming language I studied), but that is engineering malpractice.
Also FYI per the New Yorker story in 2018, Robert Mercer is the largest private owner of machine guns in the US. He runs them through the armory Centre Firearms [1].
