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Some Amazon employees are appealing to the company to be the next technology giant to cut off the controversial social media platform Parler.
The group of Amazon employees for climate justice posted a tweet overnight in which it demands that “Amazon denies the services of Parler until he removes posts that incite violence, also during the presidential inauguration.”
“We can not be complicit in more bloodshed and violent attacks on democracy,” they wrote.
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AWS ‘Acceptable Use Policy prevents customers from using their services for’ illegal, harmful or offensive ‘content. Amazon representatives did not immediately respond to inquiries from Fox Business.
Parler is criticized for the riot on Wednesday that supporters of President Trump stormed the US Capitol, attacked the police, vandalized the building and stole objects from inside.
Screenshots taken of Parler and shared on other social media platforms apparently show that users of Parler openly discuss the plans for violence during the protest that preceded the attack on the Capitol, including bringing weapons and suggesting how they counter it would use their political opponents.
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Google has already suspended the Parler app from its Play Store, and Apple has also threatened to remove Parler’s app from the App Store unless the platform improves moderation, Fox News reports.
“We are aware of the continuing placement in the Parler app that seeks to incite ongoing violence in the US,” a Google spokesman told Fox News.
In a series of reports on Parler, CEO John Matze criticized Google over the removal and Apple for also threatening to ban the app. He claims that the organization of violence took place at the Capitol in Facebook groups rather than at Parler.
“Most people on Parler are non-violent people who want to share their opinions, food photos and more,” he wrote.
A Parler representative did not immediately respond to a request from Fox Business.
Trump supporters gesture to US Capitol Police in the hallway outside the Senate Hall at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, January 6, 2021. (AP Photo / Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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The Google Play Store ban does not affect users who have already downloaded the app. And Parler is also still available on the internet. A ban on AWS could potentially have a much bigger impact on the company.
Amazon Web Services is a cloud computing giant. It provides hosting, security and other services to millions of customers. During the first nine months of 2020, the Amazon subsidiary generated more than $ 32.6 billion in sales.
There is precedent for Amazon cutting off an AWS customer from content being offered. In 2010, the company stopped working with WikiLeaks and noted that the organization does not own the rights to the content on its website and that the unedited documents ‘endanger innocent people’.
“We have been managing AWS for over four years and have hundreds of thousands of customers storing all kinds of data on AWS,” Amazon said in a written statement at the time. ‘Some of this information is controversial, and it’s good. But if companies or individuals secure and store large amounts of data that is not legally theirs and publish this data without ensuring that it will not harm others, it is a violation of our Terms of Service, and people should going to work. elsewhere. ”
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But the company also resisted calls from employees to stop working with certain customers over ethical issues. In 2019, some Amazon employees demanded that AWS no longer provide cloud computing services for Palantir because of the work Palantir does for immigration and customs enforcement.
“The world is watching the abuse in ICE’s concentration camps,” Amazon employees wrote via Business Insider. “We know our business needs and can do better.”
Amazon apparently did not want to meet the employees’ demand. AWS still calls Palantir a ‘partner’ on its website.