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A12 TECHNOLOGY
Wednesday 13 January 2021
Right-wing app Parler booted off internet over ties to siege

By MATT O’BRIEN a Trump-incited mob.
AP Technology Writer Organizers of pro-Trump
The conservative-friendly forces are already regroup-
social network Parler was ing in other forums, such as
booted off the internet the conservative-friendly
Monday over ties to last social media site Gab, as
week’s siege on the U.S. new actions are planned
Capitol, but not before ahead of President-elect
digital activists made off Joe Biden’s inauguration.
with an archive of its posts, “Gab and Parler are like
including any that might hastily put together and less
have helped organize or easy-to-use versions of Twit-
document the riot. ter and Facebook,” said
Amazon kicked Parler off Graham Brookie, director of
its web-hosting service, the Atlantic Council’s Digi-
and the social media app tal Forensic Research Lab,
promptly sued to get back which has investigated the
online, telling a federal online organizing leading
judge that the tech giant up to the Capitol assault.
had breached its contract “They’ve got notoriety as
and abused its market ultimate free speech sites
power. It was a roller coast- where you can say literally
er of activity for Parler, a whatever you want even if
2-year-old magnet for the The logo of the social media platform Parler is displayed in Berlin, Jan. 10, 2021. it’s unlawful or egregious.”
far right that welcomed a Associated Press Meanwhile, a group of dig-
surge of new users. It be- coordinated attack by the to e-mail providers, to our servers.” ital “hactivists” salvaged
came the No. 1 free app tech giants to kill competi- lawyers all ditched us too Trump may also launch his much of what happened
on iPhones late last week tion in the marketplace.” on the same day,” he told own platform. But that will on Parler before it went of-
after Facebook, Twitter Parler’s lawsuit in a Seattle- Fox New Channel’s “Sun- not happen overnight, and fline and said they plan to
and other mainstream so- based federal court makes day Morning Futures.” free speech experts antici- put it into a public archive.
cial media platforms si- the argument that Amazon In a Monday interview with pate growing pressure on One described the opera-
lenced President Donald violated antitrust laws to Fox Business, he said the all social media platforms tion on Twitter as “a bunch
Trump’s accounts over harm Parler and help Twit- company “may even have to curb incendiary speech of people running into a
comments that seemed to ter, which also uses Ama- to go as far as buying and as Americans take stock of burning building trying to
incite Wednesday’s violent zon’s cloud services. It also building our own data cen- Wednesday’s violent take- grab as many things as we
insurrection. alleges Amazon breached ters and buying up our own over of the U.S. Capitol by can.”q
The wave of Trump followers its contract by not giving 30
flocking to the service was days of notice before ter-
short-lived. Google yanked minating Parler’s account. China’s Geely, Baidu announce
Parler’s smartphone app Amazon did not return re-
from its app store Friday for quests for comment about electric car ventures
allowing postings that seek the dispute Monday.
“to incite ongoing violence Parler attorney David ernment pressure to meet
in the U.S.” Apple followed Groesbeck said by email sales quotas. China is the
suit on Saturday after giv- Monday that the company world’s biggest market
ing Parler a day to address is awaiting a hearing on the for the technology, ac-
complaints it was being lawsuit. But it was admon- counting for about half
used to “plan and facili- ished later in the day by of global sales. The ruling
tate yet further illegal and Judge Barbara Rothstein of Communist Party spent
dangerous activities.” But the U.S. District Court for the billions of dollars on sub-
the death knell came from Western District of Washing- sidies in an attempt to
Amazon Web Services, the ton, who wrote that Parler take an early lead in the
leading provider of cloud had failed to properly serve industry. It is shifting the
computing infrastructure, court papers to Amazon burden to manufactur-
which informed Parler it and ordered it to do so. ers by requiring them to
would need to look for a Matze has signaled there earn credits from selling
new web-hosting service is little chance of getting The plug-in hybrid Bingyue ePro from Geely is displayed at electric vehicles or face
after Sunday. Parler back online anytime the Auto China 2020 show in Beijing on Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020. penalties that have yet to
Parler CEO John Matze de- soon after “every vendor, Associated Press be announced. Privately
cried the punishments as “a from text message services,
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