Easily, all they need to flag your account for "fraud" is the accusation of "hate speech" they have a clause in every standard contract to not process any payments for entities that promote or contribute to "hate speech". Since "hate speech" is defined as anything commies don't like you are SOL. If you sell maga merchandise, own a bar with maga decor or have any disagreement with customer or employee that will retaliate you will be screwed.
Do you know him? If it's a complete stranger doxx him and accuse him/her exactly of the same thing just as vigorously. Fight fire with fire. No body cares about truth, just bunch of fucking morons, cancel them in retaliation.
It's easy and not risk. Why investigate real crimes with potential of getting shot, fired, or demoted when you can sit in a cubicle browse internet forums and make occasional house visits (field work) to collect paycheck.
Typically if there is any military ops the comms blackout is part of electronic warfare, disrupt the communications of enemy combatants. Currently the big tech is leading the assault to deplatform the Trump and all the conservatives.
You are correct to a point. When you collocate basically rent floor space and electrical power in a datacenter where you setup rack mounted servers you can bring in your own telco or carrier. We peared with Cogent, Level3, COX, Windstream on a 10GB BGP trunks. It would really need to be an act of congress to shut us down. Casual "employees don't like your wrongthink" does not terminate contracts like that.
It's like almost a sport, each day some corporation tries to score woke points by cancelling something or someone. They know in the long term this will be bad for them, but can't help it themselves.
Think about the chilling effect and motivation for alternative tech? It's like they have created new industry overnight. Billions of dollars in investor portfolios will shift away from big tech enterprise producs.
How much you wanna bet the AWS leaked the data before shutdowns.