Posted on Jan 21, 2021
Judge Refuses To Reinstate Parler After Amazon Shut It Down
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A new blow to Parler, a judge refuses to force Amazon to re-host them. They have also come up dry when looking for alternative hosting partners.
Judge Refuses To Reinstate Parler After Amazon Shut It Down
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After reading the court's opinion, two things jumped out at me. First, Parler admitted that this was not a first amendment issue, but was a breach of contract issue. Second, the judge stated that the riot at the Capitol was a "violent insurrection."
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Capt Gregory Prickett
SPC Kevin Ford - "The Court explicitly rejects any suggestion that the balance of equities or the public interest favors obligating AWS to host the kind of abusive, violent content at issue in this case, particularly in light of the recent riots at the U.S. Capitol. That event was a tragic reminder that inflammatory rhetoric can—more swiftly and easily than many of us would have hoped—turn a lawful protest into a violent insurrection. The Court rejects any suggestion that the public interest favors requiring AWS to host the incendiary speech that the record shows some of Parler’s users have engaged in." J. Rothstein, Order, Cause No. 2:21-cv-00031-BJR, Jan. 21, 2021, p. 13, ln. 5-12.
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SGT Edward Wilcox
PO1 H Gene Lawrence - I was referring to the movement in general, not to any one person specifically.
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Capt Gregory Prickett
CPT Lawrence Cable - The webpage is up, but there is apparently no posting at this time. All the posts showing appear to be manually placed.
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SPC Kevin Ford
Capt Gregory Prickett That's not sustainable. Wherever it is hosted probably doesn't have the horsepower to run a full social media site with any large number of users.
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