Amazon Is Booting Parler Off Of Its Web Hosting Service

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Source: Buzzfeed News

John Paczkowski
Technology and Business Editor

Amazon on Saturday kicked Parler off its Web hosting services. Parler, a social network favored by conservative politicians and extremists, was used to help plan and coordinate the January 6 attempted coup on Washington D.C. It has recently been overrun with messages encouraging “Patriots” to march on Washington D.C. with weapons on January 19.

Amazon's suspension of Parler's account means that once the ban takes effect on Sunday Parler will be offline until it finds someone else to host it.

Amazon declined to comment on the suspension. Parler has not yet responded to a request for comment.

Republican lawmakers including Sen. Ted Cruz and Congressman Devin Nunes as well as President Donald Trump’s family members and surrogates have all established accounts on Parler, and have publicly encouraged their supporters to join them there. So too have many figures in conservative media.

Read more: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/amazon-parler-aws

[RockRaven]

1. LOL!

They'll find some place else, probably. But still.

[smb]

17. Plan B

They'll find some place else

Link to tweet

[C_U_L8R]

2. Now we're talkin'

Amazon AWS powers so many rightwing (often terroristic and sedition) enterprises. I'm surprised they didn't yank the plugs before.

[Hoyt]

3. Never been there, but seems an advantage to have sites where known terrorists

and rubes hang out.

[MineralMan]

4. LOL!

[Zorro]

5. The revenge of Jeff Bezos!

[Thekaspervote]

6. Good!! So insulated by their money would like to see the Mercer's pay a price for this hateful

Platform

[RainCaster]

7. Not on any reputable news sources

Keep checking Google, but for the moment, it's only buttfeed that tells this story. And the site is still active.

[highplainsdem]

8. Tech reporter for CNN just confirmed it:

Link to tweet

[thecrow]

9. Here:

Amazon's suspension of Parler's account means that once the ban takes effect on Sunday Parler will be offline until it finds someone else to host it.

[smb]

18. Also, If Their Code Uses AWS-Specific Elements They'll Have To Rebuild Chunks Of It From Scratch nt

[RainCaster]

27. That was their choice, I love this news, though

[swag]

12. Buzzfeed News has had solid reporting for quite some time.

Sorry you don't like it.

[BusyBeingBest]

10. It's like they just took away the last big rock for the roaches to shelter under.

I think it's because of threats against Pence.

[csziggy]

16. I have the perfect memory for that type in thing

Way back when I first bought my farm, it had been a hog farm and they raised their own corn to feed to the pigs. But it had been semi-abandoned and the last corn crop had not been harvested.

The first spring, I drove the tractor with Bushhog (mower) to clear the fields to get them ready for grass. I'd start at the edge of each field and spiral in until there was one swath of corn stalks and weeds left down the middle. The red tailed hawks knew what was coming and hovered overhead. As I mowed down that last swath, rats - big cotton rats - would run out and try to make it to the edges of the fields where there was still cover.

That year the hawks ate very well.

I'm hoping that the FBI is hovering to catch the rats as they break for cover!

[BusyBeingBest]

21. Yep. We have the same thing on my property with our leach field, on a much smaller scale--

it gets very lush and overgrown compared to the surrounding sparse vegetation, and thus harbors snakes and other critters that head toward the middle as we mow it. We walk through it now to look for baby bunnies, snakes, lizards, ground squirrels, birds etc. and give them a chance to get away, or stop mowing so we don't run over them.

[csziggy]

23. I saw surprisingly few rabbits

A few times I'd veer towards the rabbits to stop the hawks from stooping on them. We also had few squirrels - I think the family that owned the farm before us did a lot of hunting and had a lot of rabbits and squirrels for dinner. But the rats were left alone and had filled the ecological niches left vacant.

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31. One Of Our Cats Started As A Stray Kitten In A Hotel Parking Lot

She freaked out at the sound of an eagle in a YouTube video (and then again at the sound effect used for Black Canary's sonic attack in Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths) -- we think she had at least one close call with the local raptors....

[csziggy]

33. Poor kitty! I'm glad she has a good home now

We may have lost one of our cats to a great horned owl. We're not sure since we never found remains. About the time he disappeared, a great horned owl was hanging around the pasture below the house.

I prefer to think he caught a ride - he loved riding in cars and on horses. He'd jump on a horse's back and ride along. And we had to extract him from my clients' cars more than once. He disappeared right after we had a show here so I hope he got into someone's truck or trailer and took a ride to a new home. If he did, he would have found a place for himself. He originally showed up here as a half grown cat and just moved right in, fitting in with all our other cats, so he could have done that just about anywhere.

[BumRushDaShow]

11. WaPo also confirming

Amazon suspends Parler, threatening to take pro-Trump site offline indefinitely

By Tony Romm and Rachel Lerman
Jan. 9, 2021 at 10:03 p.m. EST


Amazon suspended the pro-Trump social-networking site Parler from its web-hosting service this weekend, a move that threatens to darken the site indefinitely after its users glorified the recent riot at the U.S. Capitol. The e-commerce and web hosting giant said Parler had violated its terms of service given its inadequate content-moderation practices, adding in a letter to the social network that it would implement its punishment just before midnight Pacific time Monday.

Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A person familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, confirmed Amazon AWS had communicated its suspension to Parler on Saturday. Parler also did not respond to a request for comment. But its chief executive, John Matze, said in a post on the site that Parler could be “unavailable on the Internet for up to a week as we rebuild from scratch.”

The move by Amazon AWS is the latest blow for the pro-Trump social network, after Apple and Google this week each took action to remove its app from their stores for smartphone downloads citing the potential risk for violence.

Troubling those tech giants, Parler users in recent had praised the mob that left the U.S. Capitol on lockdown, threatening a potential “war.” The pro-Trump attorney L. Lin Wood, meanwhile, at one point urged Trump-supporting “patriots” on Parler to keep fighting, saying, “Almighty God is with you. TODAY IS OUR DAY.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/09/amazon-parler-suspension/

[CountAllVotes]

13. Good job for a change Amazon

Mr. Bezos can make a bundle off of this move.

These losers do not add to the economy.

They cripple it with their lies.

[pat_k]

14. Way to go amazon!

And here's what I say to anyone who asserts these types of actions infringe on 1st amendment rights:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017631225#post8

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19. What Freedom Of Speech Does And Does Not Mean

[pat_k]

22. Wonderful!

[Mawspam2]

15. Don't know why rwnjs are freaking out...

...the app loader has been removed from the app stores, but all you have to do is go to Parlar's web site and download the app from there. One additional step ain't that hard except for "morans".

These idjits are suddenly all for socialism and completely forgot that corporations are private enterprises. Don't like the rules, go build your own platform and when these morons repeal section 230, their new platform will be liable for what gets posted on their sites and get sued out of existence. Good luck with that Rebecca Mercer.

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20. Losing Hosting Means The App Won't Work -- There's No "Home" To Call And Access Messages nt

[intrepidity]

24. No doubt they'll find accommodation in Russia nt

[intrepidity]

25. Sage advice from Fredrick Brennan:

Link to tweet

[apnu]

26. And google already booted the app, so no hosting there.

I doubt Microsoft will let them hang out on Azure cloud.

Buh-bye Parler.

I feel bad for @parlertakes. It was fun while it lasted.

[Mr. Sparkle]

28. Hey you , get off of my cloud!

The Rolling Stones - Get Off Of My Cloud

[hkp11]

30. they will get it hosted somewhere else

since Rebekah Mercer is funding it.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/15/media/rebekah-mercer-parler/index.html

Same Mercers who funded Cambridge Analytica.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/no-one-knows-what-the-powerful-mercers-really-want/514529/

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

32. Good

[Shermann]

34. It appears the anti-deplatforming platform's platform is getting deplatformed