Posted on 01/11/2021 9:42:24 AM PST by Red Badger
BREAKING: Parler sues Amazon for antitrust violation, breach of contract and unlawful business interference. Asks federal judge to order Amazon to reinstate the platform
— John Kruzel (@johnkruzel) January 11, 2021
Parler is suing Amazon for antitrust violation only a day after Amazon disappeared the app from the internet.
And thats the bigger point - these cloud service companies should not be allowed to just cut a customer off on a whim. Typically the Master Service Agreements have clauses around cancellation or termination for both parties and havent seen one that stipulates less than a 90 day notice of termination.
There's probably a "good use" clause that would trigger termination as well as a dispute resolution clause also. If they didn't have this in the MSA (I doubt it though) then Parler made a huge mistake. If they did then they have a legal case against Amazon.
Parler should just as that Amazon bake them a gay wedding cake.
Really? Like enter into a contract with a free speech platform and then cause the business to become bankrupt because of what you perceive their speech is going to be? Sorry this is malicious intent to destroy competition. As an alternative to fakebook and $hitter, look into https://www.clouthub.com/home They are getting crushed right now with subscribers, but they are a full freespeech and decorum platform with their own servers, so AWS cant do anything to them.
“My bet is the courts defecate all over Parlar.”
I bet they reinstate Parler, but will put new restrictions in place which will inhibit the company’s ability to perform as advertised.
Parler and other platforms will be regulated out of existence. When Trump had the chance to take on Silicon Valley, he probably didn’t realize what was happening. No one expects that technology would merge with the left to restrict free speech in this country.
If anything, there are 70 million plus social media users who probably have a valid reason to join a class action lawsuit.
Here is a Scribd link to the Parler complaint that was filed today.
https://www.scribd.com/document/490402584/Original-Complaint
I’ll bet you’re right. It’s not about doing what’s right or acting IAW the law, the government is a bribe system that Amazon, Google, and Facebook have clearly been investing heavily into.
Case will be heard by Stacey Abhram’s uglier sister.
“Parler is suing Amazon for antitrust violation only a day after Amazon disappeared the app from the internet.”
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That’s a confusing statement. Amazon removed their Cloud support for all of Parler’s servers. I suppose by extension the quote is accurate; however, Google had previously removed Parler’s App. from their store.
I am not sure why but one thing I do know is that it takes years to get a court date with the federal system.
If it hasn’t been removed from the internet, then explain to us how to get to it.
Supreme court declined to hear Fyk v Facebook. So, the court will just say no standing. Captain Kangaroo has served his purpose.
Amazon, Microsoft and other cloud services providers have spent hundreds of millions of dollars and years of effort to convince IT managers all over the world to run their software on the cloud provider's hardware. There are some advantages to doing so, such as reducing the need to acquire and manage hardware, redundancy, and the ease and low cost of scaling up services on cloud platforms.
But nowhere in the marketing message was the idea that a company could instantly lose its IT system if the cloud provider shut it down. And few companies would ever sign up for such a service if they thought the risk of it just being taken out from under them was possible. Now every buyer of cloud services knows that their entire IT platform and all of its features could disappear instantly. Even government customers must now realize that a rogue actor in a cloud provider could shut them down at will.
Amazon has done almost immeasurable damage to the cloud services industry. Every public company should be forced to add a risk of their IT systems being shut down by their cloud services provider to their SEC filings, and every smart company should be building an alternative IT platform as quickly as possible.
Any company depending on cloud based computing services needs to develop alternatives, and the market for company owned and controlled hardware and systems is likely to grow dramatically.
‘Senior Status Judge Barbara Jacobs Rothstein, a Jimmah Carter appointee has been assigned to the case.”
Oh, thank God, somebody who will have a great grasp of the tech world. sarcasm
I'm sure they'll ask for a preliminary injunction. Given the issue in question, that's effectively a win. If they don't get the injunction then the case will most likely devolve into a mere claim for damages.
The short answer is probably “no.” Obviously I e not seen the contract but I’d be stunned if it didn’t contain sweeping language essentially giving Amazon free hand. How Amazon exercises its discretion with one customer is essentially not relevant in how it administers another. In other words, equal protection is not a contact concept. Not impossible to win an action on this contract, but no doubt it will be a tough row to hoe
“ That said, AWS isn’t the only alternative so Amazon will surely argue that they can’t comprise a trust if there is competition on the open market.”
The suit says Amazon has somehow made it so no one else will touch them.
Standard Oil comes to mind. Kill off your competition by any means necessary.
Did not work out well for Standard but John D. Rockefeller made more money from the breakup than he could ever imagine.
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