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By Joel Rosenblatt and Chris Dolmetsch | Bloomberg

Amazon.com Inc. says Parler LLC isn’t only dangerous to law and order in the nation’s capital, but to the tech giant’s own staff.

To justify to a judge why it suspended web-hosting service for the conservative social media site, Amazon executives cited threats by Parler users to delivery drivers and staff at the e-commerce giant — as well as concern that Parler failed to police violent content both before and after the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

A showdown looms Thursday in Seattle federal court over Parler’s complaint that Amazon’s action is a politically loaded attack on an upstart’s efforts to compete with social media behemoths Twitter and Facebook. But even as Parler cries foul that the loss of web-hosting…

Threats to web hosting security have become more commonplace in recent years. During last year, a web hosting provider Pro-Service located in Georgia suffered the largest cyber-attack in the country’s history. While the specifics about how the attack was carried out remain unknown, the consequences led to the defacement of over 15,000 websites. This is just an example of many breaches over the recent years.

According to Internet Live Stats, over 56 million websites have been hacked this year alone. However, the data doesn’t show if the breaches have been made possible by the site’s owners or hosting companies. Still, the responsibility lies on both parties.

There are some threats that web hosting services probably face this season, but there are also ways to mitigate the…