Parler Sues Amazon After Company Forces Social Media Site Offline

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Social platform Parler sued Amazon Web Services after Amazon banned the website from being hosted on its servers in the wake of the recent attack on the U.S. Capitol

on the platform before it went down that it was unclear when the service would return, as additional vendors had dropped support for the platform and “most people with enough servers to host us have shut their doors to us.”

Parler asked the U.S. District Court of the Western District of Washington to issue a temporary restraining order to stop the site from going offline, saying in their lawsuit that Amazon’s decision will force the website offline for “a financially devastating period” of time. Parler also pointed to a deal AWS had made with Twitter as alleged evidence of anticompetitive practices, claiming that Twitter’s decision to ban President Donald Trump and the possibility he and his supporters could move to Parler made the social media startup a “looming threat to Twitter.”

“Without AWS, Parler is finished as it has no way to get online,” the company said in the lawsuit, alleging that delaying a restraining order “by even one day could also sound Parler’s death knell as President Trump and others move on to other platforms.”Amazon shutting down Parler “is the equivalent of pulling the plug on a hospital patient on life support,” Parler’s lawsuit argues. “It will kill Parler’s business—at the very time it is set to skyrocket.

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Wonder if the pillow guy is footing the bill.

.awscloud stay strong! Your stance is helping to keep innocent people safe from rioters and their mayhem TrumpBanned

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Bwaahaha! Little ol’ Parler with 30 employees and no ad revenue is going to legal war with Amazon. Their little right wing echo chamber will be crushed with legal debt.

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