Twitter moves to Amazon
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Amazon was among the tech companies that took major action against Twitter competitor Parler earlier this month, claiming the microblogging site was not sufficiently policing violent content on its servers, particularly in the wake of the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Following Apple's and Google's bans of Parler from their respective web stores, Amazon announced that it would be booting Parler from its Amazon Web Services infrastructure, citing the company's allegedly lax content moderation. Parler was briefly unavailable worldwide following that decision, though it has since partially rebooted, with the site's leadership vowing to reopen fully on new servers before long.
A Just the News review of various Twitter accounts this week revealed that the social media company has failed to remove many tweets celebrating and encouraging violence, including some that called for continued violent crime amid last year's deadly George Floyd protests.
Yet an Amazon spokeswoman confirmed to Just the News on Friday that the company was still planning on moving ahead with bringing Twitter aboard its AWS platform. That move had not yet been made, the spokeswoman said, citing the significant technical logistics of transferring the massive amounts of data.
Pressed on why Amazon would be permitting Twitter on its servers even as Twitter allows violent content on its platform, the spokeswoman said that those violent tweets do not violate AWS's policies as they are not currently being hosted by AWS.
She declined to speculate on whether or not Amazon would force the removal of those tweets once the social media company came aboard AWS.
In one case, amid the start of the often-violent anti-police protests and riots last summer, former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick tweeted in support of the increasingly violent movement, claiming that "revolting" was "the only logical reaction" to alleged injustices.
"We have the right to fight back!" Kaepernick wrote in the viral tweet that would go on to be shared over 90,000 times.
Other Twitter users exhorted protesters to, for example, "Burn it down to ground" and "BURN IT ALL THE [expletive] DOWN!!!" while flames tore through U.S. cities during the riots as protesters set fire to buildings, including police stations and small businesses. At least one person died in one of those fires.
Popcorn, please.
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DON’T let them eat cake.
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@jon-nyc said in Twitter moves to Amazon:
FWIW Parler wasn't removed for content per se it was removed because it didn't have a sufficient process to monitor it.
I understand.
If Twitter allows this content, then its monitoring is clearly subject to improvement. I wonder if AWS will consider that.
