Big Tech giants Amazon, Apple and Google gave no indication until the last minute to launch the social media platform Parler, as their threats to pull the plug were ‘deadly serious’, said John Matze, CEO of Parler, said in an interview with Life, Liberty & Levin. Broadcast Sunday night.
The weekend after the deadly January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, Parler was kicked off Google Play and the Apple App Store. Shortly thereafter, Amazon Web Services disconnected Parler from its servers after giving them only 24 hours notice.
“It’s very, very interesting that on the exact same day, without previously indicating, they never indicated to us that there was a serious or significant issue with our app,” Matze told host Mark Levin. ‘But on the same day, you know, all on the same day, they send us these very threatening notices.
“So we said, ‘OK, let’s name it. Let’s see what you know, let’s see what Google said. Oh, they never actually emailed us and we have no way of dealing with them. not to contact ‘, “he adds. “OK, so Google’s out. Apple … we called our representative, and they basically picked it up and gave no indication that it was deadly serious, though … their email was very serious.
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“And Amazon, as usual, [was] basically said, ‘Oh, I’ve never seen any real problems. There are no problems. ‘You know, they were played very nonchalantly. And so we still, you know, on the 8th and 9th, you know, we had no real indication that it was, you know, deadly serious. ‘
According to Matze, Parler was the fastest growing social media platform in the early days of 2021.
“In the last few days before we got the ax from Amazon Web Services, we had nearly a million new accounts set up on that last day,” he said. We were number one in the App Store. We were above Facebook, we were above TikTok, we were above YouTube, above Instagram, above every app in the App Store in the United States. We were number one before we got the ax. ‘
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In addition, the CEO said it was proven that Parler’s business model works.
“You know, our ads were not intrusive. We did not use data to predict people or exploit people’s data,” Matze said. “We have presented advertising in a very humane way, so we have done what I think is best for advertising, that respects people’s privacy. We earn tremendous revenue from organic small businesses and help them out. And so we have we have proven our model. We have proven our growth in the market. “