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		Gormo 9 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down... "The internet itself" isn't a vendor that one obtains specific services from.

balamatom 9 days ago [–]

Fair enough, and neither are users paying customers. It's all middleman at this point.

Gormo 8 days ago | [–]

A middleman is a specific party that mediates the relationship between two other parties. An aggregated system that everyone is using but no one in particular is in control of is not a middleman in the sense applicable here.

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