CEO John Matze said in Monday’s filing that Parler does not have the resources to host itself on its own servers. Amazon (AMZN)‘s ban forced it to seek alternative providers, he said in the filing — which is part of an ongoing lawsuit between the two companies.
Parler is an alternative social network favored by the far right that was removed from Google and Apple’s app stores, along with Amazon’s cloud hosting service, in the wake of the deadly riot at the Capitol.
Parler’s website suddenly reappeared online Sunday afternoon with a message from Matze: “Hello world, is this thing on?”
The message, dated January 16, marked Parler’s first signs of life since being removed from Amazon’s platform a week earlier. And it touched off widespread speculation over who may now be providing…
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