You're perfectly free to drill your own oil, even if nobody in the oil industry will supply you.
At a certain point this kind of argument is farcical. If you can't at a minimum get racks in a datacenter, the bandwidth and power costs of running a site that large will destroy you.
Oh and DNS registrars are known for being picky about their customers too.
Fine, but even if we accept all that, Glenn's argument that this is "monopolistic" doesn't pass the laugh test.
Because in order for Parler to be unable to get racks in any datacenter, it'd be necessary for dozens or hundreds of different providers to all refuse access. That doesn't sound like a "monopoly" to anyone who has a dictionary or understands what "mono" means.
If the bandwidth and power costs destroy them? Then maybe they just don't have the resources to run their giant multi-million-user Nazi site, and they should go out of business, like all businesses that lack the resources to sustain operations.
> Fine, but even if we accept all that, Glenn's argument that this is "monopolistic" doesn't pass the laugh test.
Well, at least that it's an SV monopoly.
If the reason that so many businesses are cutting service and not just to Parler is that, in the wake of the Capitol attacks corporate counsel have taken note of the law on knowing material support to terrorists, which includes supplying essentially any service when you know of it's use in connection with a wide array of federal criminal offenses that are designated as “terrorism”, then there is a monopoly denying them service, and it’s the monopoly on legitimate force held by the US government.
A business that is impossible to get into without the "blessing" of the industry its in is the very dangerous circumstance that monopoly and cartel control of an industry creates. Glenn got the summary of the problem correct without getting the details right.
If Parler's business were illegal, the government could step in and shut them down and the service providers wouldn't need to do anything at all.
The other poster below you was quite right in that the US government is using its monopoly on force (and the threat of it) to effectively bully the service providers into denying them service. Illegal or otherwise (the judiciary/military version of "fuck around and find out"). Ideologically they just happen to be more than willing censors here.
At a certain point this kind of argument is farcical. If you can't at a minimum get racks in a datacenter, the bandwidth and power costs of running a site that large will destroy you.
Oh and DNS registrars are known for being picky about their customers too.