Walmart is worse. They're the biggest porpornent of the whole mask Nazi bullshit.. I'd rather dump Walmarts anti American Chinese manufacturing butts over Amazon. Who's owner is a cuck but the site mainly is just a platform for anyone. Including millions of Americans. To sell their goods.
I need to buy the same box of cereal, the same soap, and the same laundry detergent no matter where I shop. I understand (and appreciate!) what you're saying, but what Amazon did to Parler is one of the most-egregious, anti-American, anti-free-speech actions I've seen taken by any company in this country, ever. Nothing Walmart has ever done comes close to that, in my opinion.
I support lots of other businesses, too, but I needed to immediately replace my Amazon shopping habits with any realistic, viable alternative and Walmart fits the bill for me and maybe others. Right now, my desire to help anyone that I can (including myself) get off Amazon beats any misgivings I have about Walmart.
You're right; there's definitely an argument to be made that maybe Amazon.com shouldn't be punished for what AWS does, but I figure a decision like what was done to Parler must have gone all the way to the top so my two cents is that none of the conglomerate is innocent. I'm just so horrified about what happened, it's hard for me to give them any benefit of the doubt.
Incidentally: it's funny, because a long time ago, I had a simple, pure, free market ideology and was generally opposed to most anti-monopoly ways of thinking, but I've changed over the years (especially during the last year or two). I think Amazon should be broken up (the entity that runs AWS should be an entirely different company than the entity that runs the retail site, for example). Same with Alphabet. The search engine (Google), the video site (YouTube), the phone company (Android)... those all need to be broken apart. I feel a bit like a hypocrite for adopting this way of thinking, but what can I say? I have a new appreciation of the dangers/risks that can come with zero controls over this sort of thing.
Walmart is worse. They're the biggest porpornent of the whole mask Nazi bullshit.. I'd rather dump Walmarts anti American Chinese manufacturing butts over Amazon. Who's owner is a cuck but the site mainly is just a platform for anyone. Including millions of Americans. To sell their goods.
I need to buy the same box of cereal, the same soap, and the same laundry detergent no matter where I shop. I understand (and appreciate!) what you're saying, but what Amazon did to Parler is one of the most-egregious, anti-American, anti-free-speech actions I've seen taken by any company in this country, ever. Nothing Walmart has ever done comes close to that, in my opinion.
I support lots of other businesses, too, but I needed to immediately replace my Amazon shopping habits with any realistic, viable alternative and Walmart fits the bill for me and maybe others. Right now, my desire to help anyone that I can (including myself) get off Amazon beats any misgivings I have about Walmart.
Question is... Is Amazon AWS. the same branch as Amazon.com. But I completely agree with you.
You're right; there's definitely an argument to be made that maybe Amazon.com shouldn't be punished for what AWS does, but I figure a decision like what was done to Parler must have gone all the way to the top so my two cents is that none of the conglomerate is innocent. I'm just so horrified about what happened, it's hard for me to give them any benefit of the doubt.
Incidentally: it's funny, because a long time ago, I had a simple, pure, free market ideology and was generally opposed to most anti-monopoly ways of thinking, but I've changed over the years (especially during the last year or two). I think Amazon should be broken up (the entity that runs AWS should be an entirely different company than the entity that runs the retail site, for example). Same with Alphabet. The search engine (Google), the video site (YouTube), the phone company (Android)... those all need to be broken apart. I feel a bit like a hypocrite for adopting this way of thinking, but what can I say? I have a new appreciation of the dangers/risks that can come with zero controls over this sort of thing.
To all of that. I agree 100%