Parler CEO John Matze said his controversial social networking platform could never return online after major service providers accused him of failing to control violent content and turned it off on their networks, according to a report.
Matze said in an interview with Reuters on Wednesday that he did not know when, or if, the new outfit would return.
“It simply came to our notice then. We don’t know yet “, he said, but later a more optimistic note sounded.
“It may take a few days, it may take weeks, but Parler will come back and when we do we will be stronger,” Parler told reporters.
On Tuesday, the CEO criticized efforts to silence his application as “sick” and “bad”, saying that the actions taken by technology companies against Parler are against the spirit of the Constitution.
“I think he’s sick,” Matze told Fox News. “That’s not what the Constitution said. That’s not what the Constitution means, which bans 10 million American voters from the Internet, barring people from free speech. ”
Parler’s users have not been able to access the Twitter-like platform since Amazon Web Services launched the site on its servers early Monday.
Apple and Google also withdrew Parler from their app stores last week for the company’s alleged failure to remove threats of violence that its users posted.
The two-year-old company – which came under scrutiny after last week’s U.S. Chapter riots – has filed a lawsuit accusing Amazon Web Services of breaching the contract and violating an antitrust law over its decision to stop site hosting.
In response, AWS said it had repeatedly warned Parler about violent posts by its users and that the company had failed to remove them promptly.
In his interview with Reuters, Matze said Parler was talking to several cloud computing services, but declined to disclose names, citing the likelihood that the companies involved would be harassed.
He said the best result would be if the app could return to Amazon.com Inc.
“It’s hard to see how many people tell us we can’t do business with them anymore,” Matze said.
He said the app was also shipped from the Stripe online payment service and lost its Scylla Enterprise database, as well as access to Twilio and the Slack workplace messaging app.
He also said it was started by American Express, but the company said it did not have a direct merchant relationship with Parler, according to Reuters.
ScyllaDB and Twilio told the media that Parler violated its policies on violent content. Slack and Stripe did not immediately respond to Reuters’ requests for comment.