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A Seattle court rejected Parler's legal effort to force Amazon to bring it back online

A Seattle court rejected Parler's attempt to force Amazon to bring the network back online.

Judge Barbara Rothstein said Parler failed to demonstrate how the injunction would benefit public interest.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more storiesThe US District Court in Seattle rejected social network Parler's effort to get back on Amazon's web hosting platform.after the social network violated its terms of service due to an increase in violent content posted to the platform in the wake of the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6.

"The Court explicitly rejects any suggestion that the balance of equities or the public interest favors obligating AWS to host the kind of abusive, violent content at issue in this case, particularly in light of the recent riots at the U.S. Capitol," Rothstein wrote on Thursday. "That event was a tragic reminder that inflammatory rhetoric can—more swiftly and easily than many of us would have hoped—turn a lawful protest into a violent insurrection.

 

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Why the Hell would you even entertain filing in a Communist state like Washington. Was that necessary. Was that the necessary Venue?

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Shocking, a court in People’s Republic of Seattle supports silencing conservative ideas.

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