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Parler’s website is unavailable until it finds a new web host. Parler went offline Sunday after Amazon booted the social media site from its platform. Parler CEO John Matze said Sunday that the platform would “get back online as quickly as possible.”  Parler has yet to confirm any talks with specific hosting providers, and a spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories. Update: Parler struck a web hosting deal with Epik, a service based out of Sammamish, Washington, on Tuesday. Popular far-right social media app Parler has found itself in limbo after being banned by tech giants Apple, Amazon, and Google following the Capitol Riots on Wednesday. Parler became popular in recent months… Source link

Jan 11 (Reuters) — Parler LLC, a social networking service favored by many supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump, sued Amazon.com Inc on Monday, accusing its internet hosting service of making an illegal, politically motivated decision to shut down its account. In an antitrust complaint filed with the U.S. District Court in Seattle, Parler accused Amazon of hypocrisy for suggesting a lack of confidence it could police its platform, including by finding and removing content that encouraged violence. Parler said Amazon Web Services shut down its account on Sunday night despite making no threats to suspend Twitter Inc , where it said one of the top-trending tweets on Friday night had been… Source link

The Week Most of the pro-Trump Capitol mob figures infamously captured on film have already been arrested Many of the people who broke into and ransacked the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday acted like they did not think there would be any consequences. For many of them, there have been consequences. Some of them have lost work. And many of the people whose photos went viral online and on TV have been arrested. The FBI says it is searching for the rest.CNN’s Evan Perez notes that the big arrests so far have been the low-hanging fruit, the people who “were on social media boasting about this.”Public records for more than 120 people arrested so far document that “the insurrectionist mob that showed up at the president’s behest and stormed the U.S. Capitol was overwhelmingly made up of longtime… Source link

(Reuters) – Parler LLC, a social networking service favored by many supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump, sued Amazon.com Inc on Monday, accusing its internet hosting service of making an illegal, politically motivated decision to shut down its account. In an antitrust complaint filed with the U.S. District Court in Seattle, Parler accused Amazon of hypocrisy for suggesting a lack of confidence it could police its platform, including by finding and removing content that encouraged violence. Parler said Amazon Web Services shut down its account on Sunday night despite making no threats to suspend Twitter Inc , where it said one of the top-trending tweets on Friday night had been “Hang Mike Pence,” the U.S. vice president. “AWS’s decision to effectively terminate… Source link

One day after getting booted from Amazon’s computing service, Parler has filed suit against the tech giant, claiming it violated the Sherman Antitrust Act in collaborating with Twitter to “kill Parler’s business—at the very time it is set to skyrocket.” Parler went offline overnight Monday, as Amazon Web Services cut off its access to the computing software following a violent insurrection in the U.S. Capitol. Several Parler users had posted messages either encouraging the angry mob, or planning subsequent violence. The lawsuit claims that Twitter colluded with AWS to stifle Parler’s business, and that AWS “silences the millions of Parler users who do not feel their free speech is protected by Twitter or other social media apps.” Parler is seeking to be restored to AWS…. Source link