Amazon is Kicking Parler Off Their Web Hosting Services
Amazon announced Saturday evening that they would be kicking the conservative social media platform, Parler off their web hosting services starting on Sunday.
The popular new social media app Parler may be facing their biggest threat yet with Amazon announcing plans to kick Parler off their web hosting services starting Sunday. If Parler cannot find another host in time, they will officially go offline.
Parler has been the most popular alternative social media platform for people frustrated with social media censorship to join with the platform reaching number one in the Apple App Store numerous times before being suspended by Apple Saturday afternoon.
Top Republican elected officials and commentators have accounts on Parler including the following:
The Trump Children
Dan Bongino
Ted Cruz
Mark Levin
Rush Limbaugh
Brigitte Gabriel
Nick Adams
Matt Gaetz
Charlie Kirk
Breitbart
The Federalist
Louie Gohmert
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Trust and Safety Team informed Parler that the app violated its terms of service and that Amazon is unconvinced of it’s plan to moderate content in the future.
Here is Amazon’s letter to Parler in full:
Dear Amy,
Thank you for speaking with us earlier today.
As we discussed on the phone yesterday and this morning, we remain troubled by the repeated violations of our terms of service. Over the past several weeks, we’ve reported 98 examples to Parler of posts that clearly encourage and incite violence. Here are a few examples below from the ones we’ve sent previously: [See images above.]
Recently, we’ve seen a steady increase in this violent content on your website, all of which violates our terms. It’s clear that Parler does not have an effective process to comply with the AWS terms of service. It also seems that Parler is still trying to determine its position on content moderation. You remove some violent content when contacted by us or others, but not always with urgency. Your CEO recently stated publicly that he doesn’t “feel responsible for any of this, and neither should the platform.” This morning, you shared that you have a plan to more proactively moderate violent content, but plan to do so manually with volunteers. It’s our view that this nascent plan to use volunteers to promptly identify and remove dangerous content will not work in light of the rapidly growing number of violent posts. This is further demonstrated by the fact that you still have not taken down much of the content that we’ve sent you. Given the unfortunate events that transpired this past week in Washington, D.C., there is serious risk that this type of content will further incite violence.
AWS provides technology and services to customers across the political spectrum, and we continue to respect Parler’s right to determine for itself what content it will allow on its site. However, we cannot provide services to a customer that is unable to effectively identify and remove content that encourages or incites violence against others. Because Parler cannot comply with our terms of service and poses a very real risk to public safety, we plan to suspend Parler’s account effective Sunday, January 10th, at 11:59PM PST. We will ensure that all of your data is preserved for you to migrate to your own servers, and will work with you as best as we can to help your migration.
- AWS Trust & Safety Team
Parler CEO John Matze released a lengthy statement to his followers stating that potentially, “Parler will be unavailable on the internet for up to a week as we rebuild from scratch.”
The full statement is posted below:
Parler has already been suspended from the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store with now another major blow being dealt to their future by Amazon Web Services.
Millions of Americans frustrated with Facebook and Twitter are depending on Parler to carve a sustainable path for their users to have a real free speech platform — only time will tell if John Matze and Dan Bongino are able to pull it off.
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