The emerging social media platform Parler has restricted access to their own code in an effort to block the continued development of the software, CEO John Matze said in an interview with Life, Liberty & Levin on Sunday night.
Parler was kicked out of Google Play and the Apple App Store after the deadly riot on Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol. Shortly thereafter, Amazon Web Services disconnected Parler from its servers with only 24 hours notice. Parler is now suing Amazon in federal court.
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“We are trying to get our services up and running again so that we have at least access to our code repositories, at least access to our development and testing environment,” Matze told host Mark Levin.
“You know, this to me is an indication that seems really strange when they believe that social media itself is a problem, why are they shutting down everyone else as well,” Matze added. “They include our ability to work and our ability to even access and work on our own code.”
Matze explained that he ” gave a very small window to download it all while we were experiencing a lot of growth. And so we tried to download what we could, but now we no longer have access. ‘
Amazon said it had repeatedly told Parler that the content on the website violated the agreement between the two companies. Suspension was a “last resort” to block access to violent content, Amazon Web Services said in response to the Parler lawsuit, “including plans for violence to disrupt the impending presidential transition.”
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Parler is seeking a temporary restriction to withhold Amazon Web Services from Parler. It alleges AWS violated the Sherman Antitrust Act in the filing and points out that AWS has an agreement with competitor Twitter. Amazon said Parler had an “unwillingness and inability” to remove violent content from his site.
Matze said his company “needs to get our servers up and running so we can get information that requires our servers to work,” but that “they are preventing us from doing so at the moment.”
Charles Creitz of Fox News contributed to this report.