Social media site Parler is suing Amazon. The tech giant suspended its cloud services following the attack on the US Capitol last Wednesday.
Parler is a site popular among conservatives and Trump supporters. It is under fire for refusing to join Facebook and Twitter’s efforts to scrub conservative content from the Internet.
Without Amazon’s cloud services, Parler had to go offline.
In a lawsuit filed Monday, Parler is suing Amazon for allegedly breaching its contract with the app and violating the Sherman Antitrust Act.
Amazon’s contract with Parler requires the web host to provide a 30-day notice before services are terminated. But it gave Parler just a 30-hour notice last week. And its decision to boot Parler from the Internet is clearly designed to reduce competition with Twitter. It is a site that depends on Amazon’s cloud services to function.
“AWS is committing intentional interference with prospective economic advantage given the millions of users expected to sign up in the near future,” reads the suit. “When Twitter announced two evenings ago that it was permanently banning President Trump from its platform, conservative users began to flee Twitter en mass for Parler. The exodus was so large that the next day, yesterday, Parler became the number one free app downloaded from Apple’s App Store.”
Apple and Google backed Amazon’s decision by removing Parler from their app stores.
Speaking with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo, Parler CEO John Matze accused the tech companies of working together to remove competition and assured his users the app would be online soon.
“This really is a double standard,” said Matze. “We see all sorts of nasty threatening content on Twitter…So I don’t understand, you know, what this is really about. Because it is not about holding everybody to account equally. It is about giving preferential treatment to certain people.”
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What right do they have to censorship! Censoring our President was the most low class, unethical, biased and unfair thing to do. I just can’t believe they have more power than our President. Apple Google Facebook Twitter all need to be broken up and anti trust laws should be filed against them!!. So disheartening that Congress has been bought and sold. It will soon be
‘Made in America of China ‘. ?
Keep fighting-have to stop this!
GO FOR IT!! I deleted my Facebook account and will be joining you!
It’s going to be difficult but I am gradually putting into place and thinking, deleting Amazon. It will be a hugely monstrous task by letting go this site but I can do my little bit to counteract free speech suppression. With this incoming administration this country will become the USSA. That’s not what we want, but that’s what we are getting. I hope the Dems are happy with their new leaders, whoops, excuse me, I mean their incoming dictators! Not me!! I want my country back MAGA!!
The socialist can do whatever; nobody will stop us the people to support our president Trump!
Fight for the right. Censorship is the wrong way to go.
My Facebook account is gone, will not use Amazon until they stop. Won’t use my money anywhere a business censors Free Speech
All the big techs are monopolies and should be broken up like they did AT&T
We need our law makers, whom we elected, to fight for the right to freedom of speech that is guaranteed in the constitution. That freedom does not just apply to one segment of the population. It applies to everyone. I’m fed up with the cancel culture and their “everyone needs to think the way we do or else “ attitude.
This is just the beginning of 4 years with Biden and his left nitwits Got to keep fighting, we all need to be heard We alp need to stick together!
This is wrong. What would Dr. king say?
This is just the first battle of many more, I am sure. The liberals continue to apply their double standards. I never was on Twitter…however once you’re able to get your platform back up, I will join the platform.
Twitter and Facebook are already at a loss of $93 Billion combined since their discrimination alliance started. What a bunch of idiots. Wonder if that’s working for them? They haven’t reached the bottom of that barrel yet. With any luck Zuckerberg, a/k/a God, will have to answer to his shareholders, the ones that haven’t already bailed, and explain how he was working in their best interests when he made the decision to censor the American Public. He’s a professional thief who stole the idea for Facebook and ran to patent before the real developers did. He made millions and they got robbed. I say it’s time he gets what he deserves.
You are stomping on our 1st amendment! We should all file lawsuits. You commie pigs.
Parker should be band! All racist and radical republicans should be held accountable for the attack on congress that was encouraged by T4ump. He should be jailed for the rest of his days along with his supporters!
Biden/Harris for river!
Please keep fighting the hypocrisy. Parler is my new favorite
You disapproved my comments. You stated you would have to ‘moderate’ my comments. THATS SPEECH SUPPRESSION!! And you are practicing it on this site.
Keep up the good fight. We need to demolish these marxists/Communists and together we will.
We will prevail. These evil tech commies will end up in jail
Truth is a requirement of a healthy nation!
Welcome to the new “Socialist States of America”, unless we do something to stop the radical scum that has taken our country over, it’s only going to get worse.
The right must unite, we must be up for the fight, while we still have something worth fighting for.