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Comment Re:social credit culture (Score 1, Informative) 442

> Trump is completely free to set up his own Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, Facebook and everything else he got removed from and hook it up to the internet.

That's true, but it only shifts the problem upstream.

People will go after whatever 3rd party service providers his site uses - DNS, hosting, payment processing, etc. And if those service providers don't bend the knee, people will go after their upstream providers. We know this will happen because it has happened, is happening, and will continue to happen. Even Visa, Mastercard, and banks have bent the knee.

It's simply not feasible to "build your own" site unless you own and control all of the technology infrastructure up to the backbone as well as all the payment infrastructure up to the bank, and even then people will try to get other technology and banking infrastructure to not interact with yours.

You can build your own printing press, paper, and ink, and hire your own delivery boys. But the nature of the internet requires networking, and if all of your peers have been incentivized not to do business with you then you're not gonna have much of a website.

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