The complaint accuses the tech giant of interfering with a competitor’s business by eliminating political speech it doesn’t agree with. “AWS’s decision to effectively terminate Parler’s account is apparently motivated by political animus,” the suit says. “It is also apparently designed to reduce competition in the microblogging services market to the benefit of Twitter.”
Withdrawing support is “the equivalent of pulling the plug on a hospital patient on life support. It will kill Parler’s business — at the very time it is set to skyrocket.” Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has sparred frequently with Trump over a number of issues, to a more public extent than any differences he has had with other tech CEOs.
AT&T, Comcast & Other Halt Political Contributions To Lawmakers Who Objected To Certification Of Electoral Vote For Joe Biden In addition to violating antitrust law, Amazon also breached its contract, Parler contends. The suit seeks a temporary restraining order, restoring Parler to AWS, as well as unspecified damages.from the Apple and Google app stores over the weekend. The tech companies all determined that continuing to facilitate the app could promote violence, given that many Donald Trump supporters have taken to Parler recently. The attack on the U.S.
Not political speech. Incitement inflammatory speech.