Since I am on the topic of business continuity I wanted to get this post on the internet while it has been on my mind lately. What I basically want to talk about is deplatforming and the cancel culture as it relates to businesses. I think it is time to consider, if you already haven’t been considering, to add this to your list of things to consider and worry about.
The perfect example is Parler. Parler was a social media site that was a lot like Twitter and was basically a direct competitor. Parler was growing quite a bit with Twitter refuges that were being purged because of things they may have said or were posting.
Well, right after the capital protest on January 6th the tech giants went on a purging spree getting rid and and deleting the accounts of just about everyone who they disagreed with. Amazon, who owns AWS, gave Parler a 24 hour notice that they were going to shut down there hosting account. Parler did not do anything illegal. Amazon just didn’t like what was going on on their website. For a cloud service to cancel someones account for the reason that they just didn’t like them was pretty surprising. To my knowledge this was a first for a website this large to get cancelled. There were some other sites that were specifically rascist like The Daily Stormer but Parler was pretty big and growing fast.
So with that being said. What are you doing to ensure that you can continue operating if you get cancelled?
Do you have a second or third form of alternate service for everything your businesses is doing?
If you rely on Stripe, Paypal, or even AWS for that matter you should probably look into an alternative service and at least consider what it would take for your business to switch to the alternative accounts.
It might even be smart to open accounts and get a hot, warm, or cold service ready, to use the business continuty terminology.