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Bobby Allyn |
NPR
Thursday, January 21, 2021
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The social media site Parler went dark after Amazon’s web-hosting services pulled the plug. This highlighted the often invisible Internet infrastructure that makes using the Internet possible.
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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:
We talk a lot about the choices that social media platforms make. What kinds of speech do Facebook or Twitter block? But a less visible part of the Web may be more powerful. It decides whether an online platform survives or goes dark. NPR’s Bobby Allyn reports on one front in the fight over online…
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