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Flip the Script: Parler CEO Says Amazon Incited ‘Violence’ Against Him & Employees
NewsBusters ^ | 1/21/2021 | Joseph Vazquez

Posted on 01/21/2021 8:30:33 AM PST by JV3MRC

Parler CEO John Matze flipped the script on Amazon, which had accused his platform of inciting violence and removed it from its web services as a result.

Matze and his family have since gone into hiding after reportedly receiving death threats.

Matze accused Amazon Web Services (AWS) of running a “PR campaign” with other tech companies against his company Parler. He said that these companies claimed “falsely, you know — without any evidence really other than a couple of articles that didn’t have any evidence either — that, you know, Parler, somehow, was responsible for inciting violence.” Matze said that such an accusation against his company was “crazy because their statements alone — on the first day that it was released, you know, had over a thousand death threats to our lawyer alone. Our employees are harassed, you know. We’re harassed.”

Matze didn’t mince words during the Jan. 18 edition of Hannity and fired back at Amazon: “[T]he one inciting violence is AWS — Amazon — who incited, you know, economic violence against our company and has, you know, created people who actually want to threaten us and our employees too.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: amazon; foxnews; johnmatze; parler; seanhannity

1 posted on 01/21/2021 8:30:33 AM PST by JV3MRC
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To: JV3MRC

Turnabout is fair play.


2 posted on 01/21/2021 8:31:47 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: JV3MRC

Since when do ‘journalists’ make a point of adding ers, ums, and ‘you knows’ into a transcription of an interview?


3 posted on 01/21/2021 8:33:16 AM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not my current tagline.)
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To: JV3MRC

Sorry John...you have no standing..


4 posted on 01/21/2021 8:34:53 AM PST by moovova
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To: JV3MRC

Okay, he said things on Hannity (of all places). What he said was pretty much true, if “economic violence” is a real concept. That will not shame Amazon, Jeff Bezos, or any other Leftist organization or person. They don’t have shame. Unless he is able to turn that into action that involves bringing power to bear on them, it is meaningless.


5 posted on 01/21/2021 8:39:57 AM PST by cdcdawg (Tailgunner Joe did nothing wrong. Until conservatives accept why he was demonized, we will not win. )
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To: JV3MRC

PR Campaign??

I thought it was an organized and organized attack by tech companies using monopolistic practices to restrain trade? A clear FELONY under our Anti Trust Laws


6 posted on 01/21/2021 8:42:03 AM PST by eyeamok
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Violence against anybody remotely conservative is always justified


7 posted on 01/21/2021 8:42:35 AM PST by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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To: JV3MRC

I’d say take Amazon to court but Parler will be told they don’t have standing.


8 posted on 01/21/2021 8:44:38 AM PST by MercyFlush (Donald Trump is my President and Free Republic is my social media!)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Those concerned with being completely accurate?


9 posted on 01/21/2021 8:44:57 AM PST by JV3MRC
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To: JV3MRC

Against their users as well. Remember Facebook live-streamed the torture of a young white kid by Chicago thugs, but that’s not a problem.


10 posted on 01/21/2021 8:57:00 AM PST by McGavin999 (biden is not my president )
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To: JV3MRC

...or those interested in undermining the credibility of the interviewee?


11 posted on 01/21/2021 8:58:32 AM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not my current tagline.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

It’s a transcription. Journalists don’t control what someone says or doesn’t say on the airwaves. Lol


12 posted on 01/21/2021 9:14:23 AM PST by JV3MRC
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

There’s also video in the article so readers can watch the whole interview themselves.


13 posted on 01/21/2021 9:15:28 AM PST by JV3MRC
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

If that is how the interviewee speaks, then who is responsible for the lowering of expectations of competence and credibility-the journalist reporting the filler sounds, or the speaker of the words, grunts and whistles?

Just (uh), listen to the (um) “Prime Minister” of (errr) Canada attempting to speak. It’s an embarrassment and a sign of just how far down the hole our “education” systems have dragged us.


14 posted on 01/21/2021 9:38:52 AM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: Don W

“you know” isn’t a filler sound, nor a grunt, nor a whistle. You’re creating a problem out of thin air and whining about it. Relax. It’s not a big deal.


15 posted on 01/21/2021 9:57:50 AM PST by JV3MRC
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To: JV3MRC

Perhaps you need to look a little closer at what I wrote. Notice the order in which I placed the nouns: WORDS, grunts, whistles.

“You know” is just as much a filler noise as um, errr, eh, or throat clearing. Its being a short phrase does not change the fact it is being used while the speaker is trying to complete a thought.


16 posted on 01/21/2021 10:40:01 AM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: JV3MRC

17 posted on 01/22/2021 6:40:33 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: JV3MRC

Amazon’s AWS needs to be taken off the Internet. AWS hosts violence against Americans.


18 posted on 01/22/2021 6:45:45 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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