Amazon is asking a federal judge to let him keep Parler offline, saying the conservative media site has rejected calls from the Amazon Web Services division that Parler controls its violent content both before and after the Chapter insurrection. .
The technology company’s legal appeal came on Tuesday in response Parler’s lawsuit alleging antitrust violation and breach of contract after Amazon suspended Parler’s account, effectively removing him from the Internet.
Amazon Web Services started Parler from its cloud services just after midnight, Pacific time, on Monday, the site not having online access from 4:30 AM ET. Amazon said it gave up Parler because it was not confident in the site’s ability to monitor content on its platform, promoting or inciting violence.
“This case is not about suppressing speech or stifling views,” Amazon’s lawyers said in a court case. “Instead, this case concerns Parler’s refusal and proven inability to remove public security content from Amazon Web Services (‘AWS’) servers, such as inciting and planning rape, torture, and assassination of officials. appointed public and private citizens “.
Parler’s refusal to moderate the content led to a “steady increase” in violent content on the network, in violation of Amazon’s terms of service, AWS said.
“First, Amazon needs to believe that they have a strong case here that would set a good precedent for the future. And second, Amazon wants the general public – or at least the wider business community – to he sees his answer here, “said Max Kornblith, co-founder and head of growth at FairShake, a company that helps consumers resolve disputes with service providers through the arbitration process.
He mentioned that the standard agreement of Amazon customers would probably have allowed the process to be moved out of public courts, if Amazon had wanted this way.
The platform’s right-wing popularity has risen since the November election and was seen as a likely vehicle for President Donald Trump to reach his followers after it was launched from most major media platforms after Wednesday’s siege of the US Capitol. In addition to the Amazon move, Google and Apple removed Parler from their app stores.
In a complaint filed Monday, Parler argued that “Amazon’s decision to effectively terminate the Parler account is apparently motivated by political animus. It is also apparently designed to reduce competition in the market for microblogging services for the benefit of Twitter, “he said.