I give it 50:50 odds that by the time I wake up tomorrow, Amazon has either pulled the pin on Parler “Google-style” or given them a similar ultimatum to Apple. Given what we’ve seen today (and what I saw spending some time on the platform), it wouldn’t surprise me in the least.
Ok, so it was about 6 hours *after* I woke up, but I was pretty close 🙂
https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/1348089793213837319
Politics aside, this creates a really interesting engineering challenge; Parler has had sudden and rapid growth and one would assume have huge infrastructure needs and volumes of data. How do you move that over in less than 30 hours? And to where that would accept them?
They're not going to IBM, Microsoft or Google, so where? Alibaba? Second-tier providers elsewhere? They're also not going to build their own infra in time (unless they've done it pre-emptively, which I doubt), so I can't see any way in which they don't go offline for some time.
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