It's too big of a monopoly. Internet providers hold even more power than social media. Conservatives could start a server farm, host thousands of sites, and Spectrum, AT&T, etc would eventually cut their internet. They own the internet infrastructure. Independent web hosts piggyback on the fiber grid. Big Tech owns the cable lines and services.
TDW could have a dedicated server housed with a conservative owned server farm. Once TDW is traced back to that provider, they'd likely receive a threat to shut down the server or lose access to their internet grid. They would give in because without internet, their server farm would be useless.
Big tech has a monopoly on everything the internet is used for. Up until like 2018, startup hosting companies could compete. You could setup a server and provide nearly unlimited email and hosting accounts. IP's have "reputation" associated with them. You could build up the reputation of an IP used for your mail server by sending "quality" emails and Gmail/Yahoo/Outlook wouldn't auto flag as spam. BUT either way, emails would at least still send.. even if they were flagged as spam.
Now big tech has a shared database of whitelisted IP addresses. They completely reject emails from "unknown" IP's, unless the person/company wanting to receive the email adds it to their own whitelist. Basically if you want a custom email address now, you have to use a big tech provider or you won't be able to send emails to anybody that uses big tech email accounts. It crushes any small webhost and forces them to not own their own servers, and instead become a middleman.. Selling hosting/email services from a server that is actually owned by big tech.
It's too big of a monopoly. Internet providers hold even more power than social media. Conservatives could start a server farm, host thousands of sites, and Spectrum, AT&T, etc would eventually cut their internet. They own the internet infrastructure. Independent web hosts piggyback on the fiber grid. Big Tech owns the cable lines and services.
TDW could have a dedicated server housed with a conservative owned server farm. Once TDW is traced back to that provider, they'd likely receive a threat to shut down the server or lose access to their internet grid. They would give in because without internet, their server farm would be useless.
Big tech has a monopoly on everything the internet is used for. Up until like 2018, startup hosting companies could compete. You could setup a server and provide nearly unlimited email and hosting accounts. IP's have "reputation" associated with them. You could build up the reputation of an IP used for your mail server by sending "quality" emails and Gmail/Yahoo/Outlook wouldn't auto flag as spam. BUT either way, emails would at least still send.. even if they were flagged as spam.
Now big tech has a shared database of whitelisted IP addresses. They completely reject emails from "unknown" IP's, unless the person/company wanting to receive the email adds it to their own whitelist. Basically if you want a custom email address now, you have to use a big tech provider or you won't be able to send emails to anybody that uses big tech email accounts. It crushes any small webhost and forces them to not own their own servers, and instead become a middleman.. Selling hosting/email services from a server that is actually owned by big tech.