Posted on 01/09/2021 6:26:58 PM PST by janetjanet998
Edited on 01/10/2021 2:52:21 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Amazon's suspension of Parler's account means that unless it can find another host, once the ban takes effect on Sunday Parler will go offline.
Amazon on Saturday kicked Parler off its Web hosting services. Parler, a social network favored by conservative politicians and extremists, was used to help plan and coordinate the January 6 attempted coup on Washington D.C. It has recently been overrun with messages encouraging “Patriots” to march on Washington D.C. with weapons on January 19.
Amazon's suspension of Parler's account means that once the ban takes effect on Sunday Parler will be offline until it finds someone else to host it.
Amazon declined to comment on the suspension. Parler has not yet responded to a request for comment.
Parler comment:
Employee
John Matze 🇺🇸
23 minutes ago
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John
Sunday (tomorrow) at midnight Amazon will be shutting off all of our servers in an attempt to completely remove free speech off the internet. There is the possibility Parler will be unavailable on the internet for up to a week as we rebuild from scratch. We prepared for events like this by never relying on amazons proprietary infrastructure and building bare metal products.
We will try our best to move to a new provider right now as we have many competing for our business, however Amazon, Google and Apple purposefully did this as a coordinated effort knowing our options would be limited and knowing this would inflict the most damage right as President Trump was banned from the tech companies.
This was a coordinated attack by the tech giants to kill competition in the market place. We were too successful too fast. You can expect the war on competition and free speech to continue, but don’t count us out.
#speakfreely
More Info: Parler CEO Says Service Dropped By “Every Vendor” And Could End His Business
"....Parler CEO John Matze said today that his company has been dropped by virtually all of its business alliances after Amazon, Apple and Google ended their agreements with the social media service.
“Every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers all ditched us too on the same day,” Matze said today on Fox News.
Matze conceded that the bans could put the company out of business while raising free speech issues, calling it “an assault on everybody.”
“They all work together to make sure at the same time we would lose access to not only our apps, but they’re actually shutting all of our servers off tonight, off the internet,” Matze said. “They made an attempt to not only kill the app, but to actually destroy the entire company. And it’s not just these three companies. Every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers all ditched us too on the same day.”...."
This is a partial transcript of a Fox News show with Maria Bartiromo.
on my way to cancel Amazon Prime right now
AWS has many very large government contracts.
Facism is alive and well.
They are preparing for when they have the death camps up and running.
Honest to God. Seems like they’re begging for a shooting war.
They could learn a lesson from Andrew Torba at GAB.
Lawsuit....billions of dollars.
Its bound to happen sooner or later at this point
They are creating a powerful incentive for competition to be born and overtake them.
He jumped on Parler and started blathering about executing the Vice President. Even in the good ol' days before cancel culture, this would've gotten anyone banned. He's trying to deliberately sabotage the platform.
Anyone still think this idiot is on our side?
Whatever did we do before Facebook?
I belonged to Facebook for about two hours.
Somehow I have survived.
Whatever did we do before Twitter?
I have never used Twitter.
Somehow I have survived.
I'll bet you don't.
He jumped on Parler and started blathering about executing the Vice President.
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they deleted that
Seems potentially illegal
Underestimating the competition. They think they will conquer with firing a shot....
I’ll bet you don’t.
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just did
why do you say that
Knew this was next. They are going all in on crushing dissent.
Didn’t take long. Bezos getting his digs in.
“AWS has many very large government contracts.”
I am one of those that is involved directly in deciding what may be a $100 billion cloud program. You can bet this weights HEAVILY on my decision to continue with AWS discussions.
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