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Parler, the social media alternative to Twitter, has reportedly found web hosting refuge after the platform was booted from Amazon’s web hosting services. What’s the background? After the deadly riots at the U.S. Capitol last Wednesday, Parler became a central target of Big Tech over allegations that it was hosting content that helped incite the violence. Parler was eventually kicked from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, meaning the app is unavailable for download on the two most widely used smartphone operating systems. Amazon Web Services then suspended web hosting service Sunday. All three companies claimed Parler did not sufficiently moderate content posted to its platform. Parler CEO John Matze denounced the decisions as a “coordinated attack by the tech giants to kill… Source link

Amazon suspended web-hosting services for Parler one day after Google and Apple removed the social networking app from their app stores for failing to regulate users’ posts that promote violence. What do you think? “Good on them for removing Parler before it became enormously popular and dangerous.” Austin Kurtay • Landfill Organizer “You can’t just shut down an app because you don’t agree with the murders it led to.” Lola Sotelo • Bug Handler “What’s next? Banning overthrowing the government?” Chuck Groves • Unemployed Source link

After major online service providers cut ties with Parler following last week’s Capitol riots, the controversial social network has transferred its domain to Epik, a domain registrar and web hosting service known to host far-right platforms. Parler, which bills itself as an online haven for free speech, is popular with conservatives, far-right groups and conspiracy theorists due to its lack of content moderation. Following the storming of the Capitol by supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump, Parler was widely criticized as a breeding ground for unfiltered hate speech and dangerous rhetoric. The Capitol attack, which left five dead, is believed to have been planned on the platform. On Sunday, Amazon Web Services suspended Parler’s web hosting account—effectively deactivating… Source link

Parler, the conservative social media platform whose traffic has surged amid a crackdown on inflammatory content by its rivals, sued Amazon. com for ending web-hosting service for the site in the wake of rioting at the US Capitol last week. The self-described “microblogging alternative and competitor to Twitter” was offline early Monday morning after Amazon’s cloud services division stopped providing the service. Apple and Alphabet’s Google had withdrawn Parler from their app stores over the weekend. Amazon’s action “is the equivalent of pulling the plug on a hospital patient on life support,” Parler said in a lawsuit… Source link

The website of the social media platform Parler is displayed in Berlin, Jan. 10, 2021. The platform’s logo is on a screen in the background. The conservative-friendly social network Parler was booted off the internet Monday, Jan. 11, over ties to last week’s siege on the U.S. Capitol, but not before hackers made off with an archive of its posts, including any that might have helped organize or document the riot. (Christophe Gateau/dpa via AP)