Amazon is asking a judge to keep the social media platform Parler offline, citing a series of death threats against top executives and elected officials posted on the site ahead of the Capitol’s deadly riots last week, according to a court report from Tuesday.
Parler sued Amazon Monday, alleging that Amazon Web Services (AWS) violated antitrust law and violated the companies’ contractual arrangement when the technology giant removed the platform popular with conservatives due to the practical approach to content moderation.
Amazon’s lawyers defended the company’s move Tuesday, saying Parler showed a “reluctance and inability” to remove content that “threatens public safety, such as by raping, torturing and assassinating said public officials and private citizens” track and plan. ”
The court case further stated that Amazon Parler “repeatedly” notified that its contents violated the agreement of the parties and requested that it be removed, “only to establish that Parler was not prepared to do so.”
Amazon said the suspension of Parler was a “last resort to prevent further access to such content”, including plans for violence around the president-elect Joe Biden
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Parler gained a boost in popularity after the November 3 presidential election, with disinformation spreading across the platform. The app had a new surge after the riots at the Capitol, with about 825,000 installations from the Apple and Google stores between January 6 and January 10, an increase of more than 1,000 percent from the same period a week earlier, according to the data from SensorTower.
Lawyers for Amazon said since mid-November, the company has notified Parler’s policy chief of more than 100 pieces of content advocating violence on the platform.
The examples cited in the court statement included death threats usually aimed at technology executives and Democratic lawmakers, as well as posts that Democrats name as the speaker. Nancy Pelosi
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Other posts were directed at Twitter, CEO of Jack Twitter, CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg
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A Parler spokesman was not immediately available for comment.
Following the deadly riot at the Capitol last week, tech companies have taken steps to remove and curb content that could incite more violence.
Trump supporters and right-wing extremists used platforms like Parler, as well as some social media sites, to organize before the mob attack on the Capitol. Over some fringes, extremists are posting about potentially violent protests for this weekend and Inauguration Day.
Major social media sites have also taken action to limit Trump’s presence on their platforms. Facebook banned Trump indefinitely at least until Biden’s inauguration, and Twitter permanently banned the president’s account. YouTube said it would suspend the president for “continuing potential for violence”.