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Federal judge rejects Parler's demand to be reinstated on AWS

Ruling calls Parler's antitrust evidence ‘dwindlingly slight’  —  A Washington judge has denied social network Parler's demand to be reinstated on Amazon Web Services.  Following a hearing last week, Judge Barbara Rothstein declined …

The Verge Russell Brandom

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  • @mikaelthalen Mikael Thalen on x
    Parler argued in its suit against Amazon that the company unfairly dropped them as a host while allowing Twitter to remain despite “identical conduct” on both platforms. Except Twitter isn't even hosted by Amazon, so the judge immediately tossed the case. https://arstechnica.com/…
  • @karaswisher Kara Swisher on x
    As I said, despite all the hand wringing: A judge declines to force Amazon to resume hosting Parler. https://www.nytimes.com/...
  • @politics1com @politics1com on x
    Not sure Parler cares about losing their website hosting lawsuit against Amazon, as they have since found allies in Russia (hmm, wonder why?) to host their site... https://twitter.com/...
  • @thedextriarchy Adi Robertson on x
    Judge to Parler: lol https://www.theverge.com/...
  • @fryan Fergus Ryan on x
    lol. Parler's lawyers claimed that AWS pulled the plug on them but left “Twitter alone despite identical conduct by users on both sites” The judge's ruling today notes a teensy problem with this: “AWS does not provide online hosting services to Twitter” https://arstechnica.com/..…
  • @maggiejordanacn Maggie Jordan on x
    Amazon wins “Court rejects any suggestion that public interest favors requiring AWS to host the incendiary speech..some of Parler's users have engaged in...neither the public interest nor the balance of equities favors granting an injunction in this case” https://www.npr.org/...