The Parler social network website, widely used by conservatives and the far right in the US, is accessible again after Amazon stopped hosting on its servers a week ago due to the spread of violent post-sexual assault messages to the Capitol.
The page features a greeting from the general manager, John Matze, dated Saturday, and a text titled “ technical issues ” in which the company says its goal is “ to provide an impartial public square ” where people can access your exercise the right to privacy and freedom of expression.
“We will solve every challenge that comes our way and we plan to welcome you all soon. We will not let the bourgeois discourse perish,” concludes the text, addressed to “lovers and enemies” of the social network.
According to CNN, the page’s return to the service implies that Parler has found a new server and that it appears to be Epik, a platform hosting far-right content that had sounded like a candidate for the past few days, according to an archive search. Whois domains.
Following the January 6 attack on the Capitol by a mob of radical supporters of US President Donald Trump who protested an alleged electoral fraud that killed five people, internet giants such as Amazon, Apple and Google have moved to block this social network.
Parler was one of the main channels for organizing these protests and has grown significantly in recent months, becoming a haven for far-right figures whose content violates the rules against hate speech and violence on platforms such as Twitter or Facebook.
Following the withdrawal of hosting on Amazon Web Services because it posed a “risk to public safety,” Parler filed a lawsuit against Amazon in the city of Seattle, Washington, US, claiming it was expelled for political reasons and asked for an order. temporarily so that you can return to the server.
Last Friday, the company’s defense delivered documents to the court indicating that Parler’s supervisor “had to leave his home and hide with his family after receiving death threats and invasive personal security breaches,” Fox News said. .