Parler sues Amazon over lockout after US Capitol assault
Amazon.com cites dangerous content for cutting its web-hosting service to the conservative microblogging platform used by Trump supporters
12 January 2021 - 17:18
Parler, the conservative social media platform whose traffic has surged amid a crackdown on inflammatory content by its rivals, sued Amazon.com for ending web-hosting service for the site in the wake of rioting at the US Capitol last week.
The self-described “microblogging alternative and competitor to Twitter” was offline from Monday morning after Amazon’s cloud services division stopped providing the service. Apple and Alphabet’s Google had withdrawn Parler from their app stores over the weekend...
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