Photographer: Gabby Jones / Bloomberg
Photographer: Gabby Jones / Bloomberg
Parler is likely to stay offline, at least in the short term, after a judge ruled that she is likely to take a slower approach, whether or not he should take Amazon.com Inc. bring back their web hosting service for the social media hosting platform.
Amazon Lines Services pulled the plug on Parler late Sunday, saying there were violent posts related to Jan’s mob attack. 6 on U.S. Capitol goes against the companies agreement. Parler argues that the movement was politically motivated, and threatened with immediate extinction.
U.S. District Judge Barbara J. Rothstein in Seattle said at a hearing Thursday that she is not likely to order Amazon Parler to be returned immediately online. Instead, she expressed interest in taking a more measured approach to deciding whether to order a standing order to return web services to Parler.
While AWS argues that Parler was not solely to blame for being knocked offline, Parler has stated that it was imposed by the ban and that AWS did not show profitability that the used a floor to incite last week’s riots.
“The site is backed by advertising, they have no revenue generated,” David J. Groesbeck told the judge. “AWS did not identify well-intentioned efforts to implement the site and number two, to assist Parler. All of these actions reflect unstable harm and injury. ”
AWS is the largest provider of cloud computing, and their on-demand software services are the backbone for many of the most popular internet services. Parler has “no other options” for being online, he said in a suit.
The case of Parler LLC v. Amazon Lines Services Inc., 21-cv-00031, U.S. District Court, Washington Western District.
(Updates with argument by Parler’s lawyer)