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minus-squareEncrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·edit-221 hours agoDemocratizing the internet would mean half the known internet not hosting their infrastructure in us-east-2. It would work and be functional exactly as the internet was designed to be, and worked and functioned for years, by hosting their own servers.
minus-squareramble81@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·21 hours agoSo that goes to my point that it’s on the companies that use the cloud providers. Not the cloud providers themselves.
minus-squareEncrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·21 hours agoIt’s not the responsibility of the cloud providers to democratize the internet, I don’t know why you thought anyone was making that argument. Cloud providers however are responsible for their negligence given their role in the current internet.
minus-squareramble81@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·21 hours agoFair enough there. But how do you “democratize” individual business decisions? Or are you suggesting socializing all entities?
Democratizing the internet would mean half the known internet not hosting their infrastructure in us-east-2.
It would work and be functional exactly as the internet was designed to be, and worked and functioned for years, by hosting their own servers.
So that goes to my point that it’s on the companies that use the cloud providers. Not the cloud providers themselves.
It’s not the responsibility of the cloud providers to democratize the internet, I don’t know why you thought anyone was making that argument.
Cloud providers however are responsible for their negligence given their role in the current internet.
Fair enough there. But how do you “democratize” individual business decisions? Or are you suggesting socializing all entities?