The logo of the social media platform Parler. (Christophe Gateau/dpa via AP)
Parler has reportedly moved its domain name to a Sammamish web-hosting company, after the website’s hosting services were terminated by Amazon earlier in the week.
As of Monday, Parler’s domain name has now been moved over to Sammamish-based Epik. As for larger hosting services, a lawsuit filed by Parler against Amazon says the company “has been unable to find an…
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 Apple and Alphabet’s Google had withdrawn Parler from their app stores over the weekend.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…
Epik, a Washington State-based internet web-hosting safe haven for far-right websites, has given refuge to Parler after it was banned by several major tech companies. Parler also announced that it will sue Amazon, for antitrust violations for scouring the site from the web overnight.
With users as wide-ranging as Texas Senator Ted Cruz and neo-Nazi terror groups, Parler was recently booted from Amazon’s Webhosting service, Google Play, and the Apple Store, after it was accused of hosting content from certain controversial online organizations preceding the violence on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, January 6. Amazon said it axed Parler because it was not confident in its ability to monitor content on its platform promoting or inciting violence.
So, Parler in return is suing…
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….
