Social media platform Parler has dragged Amazon into a lawsuit for allegedly cutting off its services unannounced. It asserted the antitrust violations, stating that Amazon did not issue the 30-day notice period and suspended its services in an impromptu manner.
“Without AWS, Parler is finished as it has no way to get online,” the complaint said. “And a delay of granting this TRO by even one day could also sound Parler’s death knell as President Trump and others move on to other platforms.” It went to say how Amazon Web Services kicked the company off its cloud servers for political and anti-competitive reasons. The conservative social network founded in 2018 exploded in popularity among supporters of President Trump after the November U.S. election.
Responding to these allegations the Amazon Web Services (AWS) team said that there was a significant amount of content on Parler that encouraged and incited violence against others and that Parler was unable or unwilling to promptly identify and remove this content, which was a violation of their terms of service. It went on to say that Parler’s lawsuit has “no merit.”
This is in the wake of last week’s ‘storming of the Capitol’ incident, where Trump supporters breached security protocols and mobbed the White House because of the results of the electoral college that voted Joe Biden for POTUS.