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Amazon employees call for company to cut ties with Parler after deadly U.S. Capitol riot
CNBC ^ | 1.9.2021 | Annie Palmer

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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KEYWORDS: amazon; aws; parler
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To: libh8er

And if Amazon doesn’t, these employees will quit their jobs on principle. Right?


21 posted on 01/09/2021 3:37:04 PM PST by trublu
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To: I got the rope

Everyone should be done with Amazon anyway. You are just funding the enemy.


22 posted on 01/09/2021 3:38:05 PM PST by joshua c (President Elect joshua_c. Hey if Joe can do it.)
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To: libh8er
How about all the riots incited by the left....including Blasio painting BLM on the treet in NYC.....IN FRONT OF....Trump Tower?

How about ripping down statues as if southerners have no right to their history. And do any of these detroyers know that the entire South was given amnesty in order to heal the country. No respsect for history and these people like BLM instigators are simply inciters....and the DEms promote it.

23 posted on 01/09/2021 3:39:29 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: libh8er

Lot’s of trucks driving around, and sitting on empty lots with “Amazon” written on the side. ALl kinds of things can happen.


24 posted on 01/09/2021 3:40:46 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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To: libh8er

Go wipe your asses with your food stamps, you losers.


25 posted on 01/09/2021 3:42:30 PM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Reverend Wright

As soon as it’s nationalized, the government will contract it out to...Amazon! The government doesn’t actually do anything themselves, they oversee contracts for it.


26 posted on 01/09/2021 3:44:08 PM PST by chickenlips (Neuter your politicians)
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To: libh8er

Amazon, just saying, you don’t want all of us Trump supporters to boycott you.


27 posted on 01/09/2021 3:46:07 PM PST by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: libh8er

Partner, why don't we hear more from those demented Reporters and so called Journalists in the lousy MSM that we have today about the year 2020 and how BLM and Antifa caused about 3 to 5 Trillion dollars worth of damage across the great cities in this country.

The riot in the D.C. was nothing compared to 2020 riots, burning down to the ground, destroying parking lots full of brand new cars, looting, killing of innocent bystanders, and the injuries that went to innocent bystanders.

The lousy MSM and the lousy Jounalists along with the High Tech folks like Twitter, Amazon, and Facebook should pay a whole lot for their dumb ass reporting.

The businesses that located on the most prosperous avenuse in the world will not go back to serve customers since they were looted out of billions of dollars to their stores. The avenue is known as Madison Ave. in Chicago, Ill.

28 posted on 01/09/2021 3:46:23 PM PST by TheConservativeTejano (The Business of America is Business...)
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To: libh8er

I hope so, but whoever takes them will feel the lash.


29 posted on 01/09/2021 3:48:00 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: I got the rope

Why aren’t you done with them already? Too dependent on their services and don’t want to be inconvenienced?


30 posted on 01/09/2021 3:51:59 PM PST by Glide Plane
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To: DesertRhino

Put “we support the police” stickers on them. Within hours the things inside will magically disappear.


31 posted on 01/09/2021 3:52:14 PM PST by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: libh8er

Reminds me of 1995 after OKC. Another great purge.


32 posted on 01/09/2021 3:52:50 PM PST by Luke21 (Elections you say? We get them next election? )
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To: libh8er

I just responded ded to their twit told them to go kiss china’s ass.


33 posted on 01/09/2021 3:53:12 PM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!at )
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To: Meatspace

No, but Jeff Bezos does and Parler runs on AWS, so how long do you think he will allow it to continue?

Parler can and should move right now. They will have to eventually.

Gab runs it’s own servers so they’re only beholden to their bandwidth provider. But if you don’t think ANY thing on the internet can be disrupted or shut down, you don’t understand how things work.


34 posted on 01/09/2021 3:53:27 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan. )
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To: libh8er
Amazon Employees for Climate Justice

ROFL

35 posted on 01/09/2021 3:55:12 PM PST by McGruff (We're no better than a third world country now)
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To: Meatspace
> The employees do not run Amazon and they have no say in policy.

Methinks you don't understand the tech world very well, they basically do when it comes to matters like this.

36 posted on 01/09/2021 4:06:05 PM PST by SecondAmendment (This just proves my latest theory ... LEFTISTS RUIN EVERYTHING)
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To: libh8er

I converted a bunch of credit card points to Amazon gift cards. I used some of it to join Prime. Get to watch some free TV and get free delivery. So today for example, I made a $7.00 purchase with free overnight delivery. It is a Sunday delivery. Hopefully this is a loser deal for them. Maybe I will return it?

At any rate, I have a long driveway so watching the truck drive up it or the driver walk up it on a Sunday probably costs more than they made. I will keep squandering my gift cards in this fashion until they are gone. Then Amazon is gone. Just think if every Prime member did this.


37 posted on 01/09/2021 4:06:26 PM PST by Neverlift (When someone says "you just can't make this stuff up" odds are good, somebody did.)
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To: libh8er

Boycott Washington Post and Amazon


38 posted on 01/09/2021 4:07:28 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: libh8er

Time to cut all ties to Amazon?


39 posted on 01/09/2021 4:17:07 PM PST by JustTheTruth
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To: libh8er

“A group of Amazon corporate employees is calling on the company to...”

Gee. A “group”. Wow. Better do what they say.


40 posted on 01/09/2021 4:19:58 PM PST by simpson96
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