- Parler CEO John Matze said in court filing Wednesday that Slack had “suspended their services” for his company.
- Matze, in a lawsuit against Amazon’s AWS over its decision to cut ties with Parler, said Slack had “called for a breach of their own terms of service based on AWS ‘decision to dismiss Parler.”
- “Losing Slack makes it very difficult to enforce our terms of service effectively with our nearly 600 paid jury members,” Matze said.
- Leading tech companies including Amazon, Twilio, Apple, and Google have cut ties with Parler in recent days amid widespread reports that hackers have used the app to organize and incite violence at U.S. Capitol last week.
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Slack has joined the growing list of tech companies refusing to do business with Parler, according to Parler CEO John Matze.
“Slack Technologies, which provided a chat messaging system to coordinate with the jury Parler enforcing our terms of service, abruptly suspended their services to Parler,” Matze said in a statement. the court filed Wednesday.
Slack did not respond to a request for comment on this story.
Matze filed the filing as part of a lawsuit against Parler’s trust against Amazon’s cloud computing arm, Amazon Web Services.
Parler filed the lawsuit Monday after AWS cut ties with the controversial social media company amid widespread reports that protesters captured by the U.S. Capitol last week had used Parler to organize and incite violence.
“AWS’s massive breakout … allowed the media to abuse Parler in ways that have coerced Parler’s enemies,” Matze said, adding that by terminating his contract with Parler, Slack called “a breach of their own terms of service based on AWS ‘decision to waive Parler.”
“Losing Slack makes it very difficult to enforce our terms of service effectively with our 600 paid jury members,” Matze said in the file.
Parler has faced a sharp drop in violence last week as various business partners have cut ties.
Apple and Google removed the Parler app from their app stores, also stating that it refused to download violent content. Shortly afterwards, many Parler service providers, including Twilio, Okta, and Zendesk, also removed Parler from their platforms.
Parler’s platform was taken offline over the weekend after AWS terminated its contract, and with Google Cloud, IBM, and Oracle all refusing to accept Parler, it is reported that its company on the services of Epik, a domain registrar known for hosting far-right content.
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Parler has risen to fame in recent months as mainstream social media sites have become increasingly pressured to overcome hate speech, misinformation, and calls for violence.
Following the U.S. presidential election in November, Trump supporters turned to other social networks, including Parler, to plan election protests after Facebook and other sites banned groups that pushed conspiracy. From Nov. 3 to Nov. 9, Parler was downloaded about 530,000 times in the U.S., according to data from Apptopia.