Posted on 01/09/2021 3:18:16 PM PST by libh8er
A group of Amazon corporate employees is calling on the company to stop providing cloud services to Parler, a social media app popular with Trump supporters.
In a tweet on Saturday, employee advocacy group Amazon Employees for Climate Justice said Amazon Web Services should “deny Parler services until it removes posts inciting violence, including at the Presidential inauguration.” AWS provides cloud services to Parler that host its website.
Representatives from Amazon and Parler didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Pressure has been mounting for Amazon to stop hosting Parler on AWS after other tech giants took action against the social media app in the wake of the deadly U.S. Capitol riot earlier this week. Google on Friday removed Parler from its app store for Android users, Google Play Store. BuzzFeed News reported on Friday that Apple has threatened to pull Parler from its App Store.
Parler, which launched in 2018, has emerged as a popular platform for President Trump’s allies in the last year by billing itself as a free speech alternative to mainstream social media services like Twitter and Facebook.
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These actions are doing so much to diffuse the tension. Thanks Apple and Amazon, really, just amazing.
The employees do not run Amazon and they have no say in policy.
Oh, brother. Amazon moves their HQ out of Seattle to avoid business-destroying rioters. And THEN move to ostracize the one man who would have sent Federal troops in to end the riots and looting if the governor had requested it.
Sure.
We’re about to find out.
How are the @$$holes that made it “deadly?” It sure wasn’t the Trump Supporters.
There morons have all eaten one too many grass clipping burgers.
Yep....if they do this im done with Amazon.
Just look at the people in the photo. For the most part a bunch of kids with no actual life experiences. A real employer would fire them, but they are constrained and would be prosecuted by the soon to be illegitimate government.
Undoubtedly Jeff Bezos will agree with you.
I’m expanding my recommended nationalization list to include the cloud part of AMZN
GOOG, FB, TWTR, PYPL & AMZN cloud nationalized and made part of the Post Office. Along with Post Office banking.
Socialism to save us from homoglobalist communism disguised as capitalism ?
I guess so, but as long as FR is still allowed I will be here advocating for something like this - unless someone else can come up with something better.
Parler is down if Amazon stops cloud services. A top Parler executive on Tucker Carlson’s show said as much. I don’t know how difficult it would be to move if they have to?
“The employees do not run Amazon and they have no say in policy.”
This is not coming from the employees. This is kind of like the ‘spontaneous demonstration by grade school students’ we see in our schools.
Bezos may throw them a bone but if he kicks Parler out it won’t look good to potential AWS customers. The cloud business is cutthroat between Microsoft, Google and Amazon with Oracle closing in and Parler set to grow exponentially in the coming years. On the other hand Bezos is still sore about losing the JEDI contract for AWS.
Oracle will take them with open arms. I hope they have a backup plan.
Bowing down to their Chinese masters
Soon patriots will only be able to exchange information in pubs like days of yore.:::oh wait, the demonrats have shut down the pubs
Parler is in favor of free speech. Cant have that in Joe Biden’s new Amerika.
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