Parler Sues Amazon, Asks Court to Reverse Illegal ‘Death Blow’ – IOTW Report

Parler Sues Amazon, Asks Court to Reverse Illegal ‘Death Blow’

PJM: On Monday, Parler filed a lawsuit against Amazon, accusing the company of breaching its contract and violating a century-old anti-trust law by promoting Twitter at its competitor’s expense. Amazon had removed Parler from its servers on Monday morning, claiming the conservative social media platform refused to remove posts advocating violence at the Capitol riots last Wednesday.

Due to Amazon’s removal, “Parler will be offline for a financially devastating period,” the lawsuit claims. It alleges that Amazon applied a double standard, breaking its contract with Parler over a small number of posts while preserving its ties with Twitter, where threats of violence reached into the thousands on Friday.

Amazon acted just as conservatives were flocking from Twitter to Parler, following Twitter’s ban of President Donald Trump’s accounts.

“Given the context of Parler’s looming threat to Twitter and the fact that the Twitter ban might not long muzzle the President if he switched to Parler, potentially bringing tens of millions of followers with him, AWS moved to shut down Parler,” the lawsuit alleges.

Oddly, Amazon leaked the story of Parler’s termination to BuzzFeed more than an hour before it bothered to inform Parler itself. BuzzFeed reported that AWS would remove Parler at 11:59 p.m. Pacific time Sunday night, in an article published at 6:07 p.m. Pacific on Saturday. Amazon did not email Parler about the termination until 7:19 p.m. Pacific, “meaning AWS leaked the letter to BuzzFeed before sending it to Parler.”

Parler’s contract with AWS stipulated that AWS must give notice 30 days before the termination of a contract. read more

16 Comments on Parler Sues Amazon, Asks Court to Reverse Illegal ‘Death Blow’

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  2. “BTW, Bush and them should be sued for the Patriot Act. That was the seed for a lot of judicial and legislative evil that bloomed.”

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  3. If anything, the courts are more corrupt than the run-of-the-mill politicians.
    They’ve been turning America to shit for over a century – gee – probably a century and a half.

    “Law is now a technical means for the achievement of specific political aims.”

    izlamo delenda est …

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  4. They have little chance of winning, because Amazon can afford a larger and better legal team in nothing else.

    If I were psychic I would be seeing bankruptcy in their future.

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