Parler Update
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Parler's chief executive John Matze and his family have gone into hiding after receiving multiple death and harassment threats, multiple US news agencies reported.
Parler is a conservative social media app and is favored by supporters of President Donald Trump and claimed more than 12 million users. Following the Capitol riots, the app was removed from Apple, Amazon and Google servers.
It was revealed that the family went into hiding after a new court filing from Parler's legal team revealed documents obtained by Fox News.
What? It's a "conservative social media app?" No more so than Twitter is a liberal app. The difference is that Parler doesn't
censormoderate "hate speech" of those whom they find "dangerous", unlike Twitter who allows Khamenei and Farrakhan, but not the New York Post.Amazon Web Services cut off Parler on Sunday night, saying Parler had shrugged off repeated warnings to remove violent content.
It said that content included calls to assassinate Democratic House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos, Facebook Inc CEO Mark Zuckerberg and members of the media.
Ambika Doran, a lawyer for Amazon, said Parler violated its contract by allowing such content and had not shown it could effectively monitor content.
"Amazon made the only real choice that it could, which was to suspend the account," she said.
Parler said Amazon had no contractual right to pull the plug and did so in a politically motivated bid to benefit Twitter Inc , a larger Amazon client that Parler said did not censor violent content targeting conservatives. In a statement, Amazon said that "suspending Parler had nothing to do with politics."
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The Amazon Web Services TOC:
https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/
The term "surveillance" occurs once.
The term "monitor" occurs 9 times. None of them in the context of monitoring content.
The terms "danger" or "dangerous" do not appear at all.
The term "offense" is not found.
The term "offensive" is not found.
The term "threat" or "threatening" is found twice. Once in the context of threatening death or serious harm to a person.
Is there anything else that might justify AWS position?
