- Parler CEO John Matze claimed in court on Wednesday that Slack had canceled “their services” to his company.
- Matze alleges in a lawsuit against Amazon’s AWS over its decision to sever ties with Parler, that Slack mentioned a breach of their own terms of service based on AWS ‘decision to dismiss Parler’.
- “Losing Slack makes it extremely difficult to enforce our terms of service effectively with our nearly 600 volunteer and paid jurors,” Matze said.
- Major technology companies, including Amazon, Twilio, Apple and Google, have severed ties with Parler over the past few days amid widespread reports that rioters used the app last week to organize and incite violence at the US Capitol.
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According to Parler CEO John Matze, Slack has joined the growing list of tech companies refusing to do business with Parler.
“Slack Technologies, which provided a chat messaging system to coordinate with the Parler jury that enforces our terms of service, abruptly canceled their services to Parler,” Matze claimed in court Wednesday.
Slack did not respond to a request for comment on this story.
Matze filed the lawsuit as part of Parler’s antitrust lawsuit against Amazon’s cloud computer, Amazon Web Services.
Parler filed the case Monday after AWS severed ties with the controversial social media company amid widespread reports that rioters who seized the U.S. Capitol last week used Parler to organize and incite violence.
“AWS’s widely publicized interruption … has enabled the media to misrepresent Parler in ways that have alienated Parler’s partners,” Matze claimed, adding that Slack, during the cancellation of his contract with Parler, “” a violation of their own terms of service based on AWS’s decision to dismiss Parler. ‘
“Losing Slack makes it extremely difficult to enforce our terms of service effectively with our nearly 600 volunteer and paid jurors,” Matze said in the submission.
In the wake of the violence last week, Parler dealt with various business partners.
Apple and Google have removed the Parler app from their app stores, citing the alleged refusal to remove violent content. Not long after, many of Parler’s service providers, including Twilio, Okta and Zendesk, also removed Parler from their platforms.
Parler’s platform was beaten offline over the weekend after AWS suspended its contract, and because Google Cloud, IBM and Oracle did not all want to take on Parler, the company allegedly used the services of Epik, a domain registrar known for the presentation of content with the right right.
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Parler has gained notoriety over the past few months as mainstream social media sites come under increasing pressure to curb hate speech, misinformation and calls for violence.
After the US presidential election in November, Trump supporters flocked to alternative social networks, including Parler, to plan election campaigns after Facebook and other websites banned groups that fueled inflammatory conspiracies. From November 3 to 9, Parler was downloaded about 530,000 times in the US, according to Apptopia.