Posted on 01/11/2021 9:42:24 AM PST by Red Badger
You gotta hand it the Freepers who are a bunch of pansy ass negative nancies here. The same assholes who surrendered to Biden the night of Nov 4 aren’t even encouraged that people are fighting bACK AND the best comment is “no standing”?
With this kind of sh*tty DEFEATIST attitude, we deserve to get our asses kicked. Im sure deep down they wanted Biden to win and they call themselves “Trumpers”.
Court response: “FK YOU! We don’t give a sh*t about your 1st Amendment Rights ... We work for the Chi-coms ... who have video of us sodomizing little boys.”
If a Judge moves this forward my guess is Amazon backs down to some degree. I have no doubt Dr. Evil Bezo’s put pressure on Parlers Vendors / Lawyers to jump ship or ELSE. Subpoenaing Amazon’s communications would put their panties in a bind. At least I can dream.
Amazon just lost 2 sales yesterday from this household because of their actions!
I agree.😝
I can find nothing about the attorney. No website. I get the feeling that he may be a sole practitioner.
You gave a Pacer link. Are a CM/ECF registered user for case filings?
Yes, but the link that I sent was not through my account.
They dont have simple web site that they just flip onto another web hosting provider. Migrating takes times so this buys them 30 days that Amazon must give them before severing.
I like it. It focuses on AWS double dealing with Twitter.
Was this an ECF filed case or scanned in by a docket clerk after receipt by the front desk?
The app store (non) availability is an entirely separate issue.
Meant 151 for you, not me :)
Right... On Android platforms you could sideload Parler.
Acquiring and installing the app has nothing to do with the case.
Not to defend Amazon, but this is laughable. Amazon's AWS service is a hosted solution provider. There's got to be 1,000 of them out there. The largest players include Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, IBM Cloud, Oracle Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, and others. Amazon AWS doesn't even have half the market, let alone a monopoly, and there's no evidence whatsoever of collusion for price fixing or anything else between those major players.
To say nothing of the fact that what they effectively are is a rented compute and storage company. And when you break down what the "cloud providers" do, you add Rackspace, NTT America, Equinix, RagingWire, and 1,000 other players to the market. There isn't one platform that everyone must use. There are literally over 1,000 depending on the specific mix of features and integration and pricing and so on that you're after. Antitrust? What trust? Have a bad relationship with Amazon AWS? Go somewhere else. That's called capitalism.
"probably at least a dozen US laws on torturous business interference, breach of contract, monopolistic behavior, etc."
Zero chance of success. Amazon could put a first year law student on this case and it'd be a slam dunk. Have you ever read their ToS? It's about 6 miles long and gives them dozens of opportunities to to use to terminate your service at any time. Unless Parler somehow got service without agreeing to the Terms of Service (and they didn't), they're easily in violation a dozen different ways because pretty much anyone can be at Amazon's sole discretion. If you want to use their platform, that's the agreement you make. Otherwise, go elsewhere. There's literally 1,000 other providers in the marketplace. Monopolistic behavior? That would require anything remotely resembling a monopoly. And depending on how you want to slice up the market (whether you want to go with the insanely narrow definition of "cloud platform providers"), the worst you can claim is that Amazon AWS controls less than half the market. And that market share has been declining steadily as Microsoft Azure and others become bigger players.
That just isn't a monopoly. Like it or not, there's no case here. If the case survives an immediate dismissal, I'd be utterly shocked. But I won't be shocked. It's going nowhere.
Yes, even the most hopeless, pointless case will find an army of attorneys ready to pursue it as long as they can bill hours and get paid. If these guys wanted a hole to throw money into, they should have bought a boat. For the amount of money they’re going to burn on this ridiculous effort, it would have been a nice one.
For me Apple is the trillion dollar question. Parler was one of the first apps I installed when I purchased my iPhone last summer. Apple had ZERO problems with hosting Parler until Friday, January 8.
I NEVER would have bought an iPhone if I knew they were going to ban social media platforms for partisan political reasons. This isn’t anywhere in their contract. Apple owes me both for the cost of the iPhone itself and my time and trouble in purchasing it and transferring contacts and data from my old Galaxy phone.
I reckon that Apple owes me somewhere between $2,000 to $3,000, along with anyone else who has an iPhone or Mac.
“Zero chance of success.”
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An 82 year old Democrat appointed judge?! I said this on another thread today: how do the left always end up in front of Dem appointed leftist judges? Hundreds of Trump appointed Federal judges, and many holdovers from the Bush days, but they are never assigned to contentious cases between left and right. The rot in the Federal judiciary is much deeper than any of us understand.
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