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Parler takes Amazon Web Services to court alleging anti-competitive behaviour

In a lawsuit filed on Wednesday, social media platform Parler has claimed that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has used its position to stifle competition when it banned the platform from its cloud servers. While the right-wing social media platform says that AWS is in violation of its own policies, Amazon says that Parler was slow to act on content that threatened violence. Parler, the alt-tech micro-blogging and social network platform, surfaced in August 2018 as an alternative to Twitter and other social media websites over allegations that the tech and social media giants were censoring right-wing political content on their websites. The company claims to have over 12 million users. While its user-base was growing over the last few years, it began to surge in 2020 once social media websites began censoring tweets of Donald Trump, the outgoing US President, and other right-wing personalities and commentators. Further, once Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube actively began taking down content related to QAnon, the anonymous conspiracy theory entity or ecosystem, Parler saw more users come on board. While an alternative social media platform dedicated to right-wing opinion is seemingly inconsequential to the scale that Twitter and Facebook command over the global internet user base, in the wake of the riots and storming of the US Capitol building on January 6, tech companies have begun to ban the platform. Google and Apple have both removed the app from their app stores. On its part, on Monday Amazon cut off the company from its…

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