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• @buzzfeednews @buzzfeednews on x

  NEW: Amazon is booting Parler off AWS, its web hosting service, knocking the pro-Trump social network offline until it finds a new host. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...

• @jacknicas Jack Nicas on x

  Yesterday, Parler was one of the fastest-growing apps in the U.S. and was poised to capitalize on Trump supporters' growing anger at Silicon Valley. By today, both Apple and Google had cut Parler off from their app stores, dealing it a major blow. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @scobleizer @scobleizer on x

  Proper decision. https://twitter.com/...

• @kinsellawarren Warren Kinsella on x

  “We have always supported diverse points of view, but there is no place on our platform for threats of violence and illegal activity,” Apple said. “Parler has not taken adequate measures to address the proliferation of these threats to people's safety.” https://www.nytimes.com/..…

• @kateconger O...K on x

  Apple won't let users download the Parler app anymore, citing violent content posted by its users. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @lauriesegall Laurie Segall on x

  Huge. Doomscrolling this am on Parler leads me to two conclusions: there were multiple threats of violence/ quite a few bomb emojis & many calls to head over to privately organized channels on telegram in preparation for this. https://twitter.com/...

• @theradr Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg on x

  Good, ok. But let's not forget that it took an armed mob breaking into the bedrock institution of democracy seeking to overthrow election results and, apparently, to murder elected officials for all these folks now taking action to take white supremacist terrorism seriously. http…

• @yashar Yashar Ali on x

  NEWS Apple has now pulled the Parler app off of its app store. A major blow to the growth of the app which has become popular with Trump supporters in recent months. @jacknicas @daveyalba report https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @naima Naima Cochrane on x

  I fervently hope that major tech companies starting to understand and act on their responsibility in all this is something that will continue. Apple and Google Cut Off Parler, an App That Drew Trump Supporters - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @davetroy Dave Troy on x

  Apple has suspended Parler indefinitely. Your move @JeffBezos and @awscloud. Do not hesitate over first amendment concerns; CEO John Matze has an entire free market full of options, especially in Russia where he has family ties to the government. Let Putin's people host Parler. h…

• @sethanikeem M. Belanger on x

  When you are too much of a moral wasteland even for Amazon to stomach: Parler is effectively gone. https://twitter.com/...

• @green_footballs Charles Johnson on x

  OK, well... THIS hurts Parler much more than losing the app store. https://twitter.com/...

• @mr_berman Matt Berman on x

  Man, another huge step. Amazon Is Booting Parler Off Of Its Web Hosting Service https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... via @johnpaczkowski

• @mrbenjaminlaw @mrbenjaminlaw on x

  In all the horror, two articles that have given me life, sentence-for-sentence, in the last 48 hours. (1) “This is very huge,” Amy Peikoff, Parler's policy chief, told Fox News. Without access to the App Store, she said, “we're toast.” https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @joshtpm Josh Marshall on x

  this is an infinitely bigger deal than apple or google. Those just mean you have to use the browser as opposed to the app. This means Parler is off the web altogether. Also, depending on their set up, moving off aws may require non trivial rearchitecting of their site. https://tw…

• @matthewfederman Matthew Federman on x

  This is positively Orwellian! By that I am referencing Larry Orwell, a friend of mine who has studied the positive benefits of deplatforming hate groups. https://twitter.com/...

• @briannawu Brianna Wu on x

  Some context as someone with 6 years of producing Apple news on @RelayFM. - Google banned them 1st - Apple has been aggressive historically in applying these rules. If anything, Parler was given unprecedented leniency. - Parler was lucky to not be banned after the data breach. ht…

• @jacknicas Jack Nicas on x

  Well, Parler might really be toast now. Amazon just pulled its support for the site, meaning Parler will go offline tomorrow night unless it can find another web-hosting provider before then. Parler is now fighting for its life. Our updated story: https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @slpng_giants @slpng_giants on x

  CONFIRMED: @amazon's @awscloud will discontinue their service with Parler. https://twitter.com/...

• @markgurman Mark Gurman on x

  Apple kill-switching Parler no longer necessary for the app to stop working unless it finds a new web host. https://twitter.com/...