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.
This whole thing is going to hurt Amazon's business. I'm not sure they even care, but they seemed to have a bit of a conservative streak in picking their corporate locations.
RE: 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 main other alternatives with the requisite data centers are Google and Microsoft. I don’t think either will host Parler as well.
Parler should emulate Gab, build your own data center. Of course it’s easier said than done. This requires lots more money to organize and set up.
Yay! The courts that really care so much about our Constitution, they let election fraud go unchecked, will now surely defend the 1st Amendment rights of Parler!
RE: What is the legal argument of Amazon and others?
FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION. As in, we reserve the right to do business with whoever we wish to.
We are back in the Robber Baron era. The difference is, the 19th century variety at least pretended to have morals. The current crop has none and doesn’t even pretend.
The other difference is that the “progressive left” opposed the original Robber Barons. Seems pretty clear our present-day left is perfectly cozy with gigantic businesses.
More than those who are lawyers and members of Congress
AWS has a MAJORITY share of the server hosting market. the case thus has merit. If they shopped this to the right judge, they may well get some time out of it.
“Nothing to see here. Move along.”
Yep it’s gone.
I thought all their attorneys quit.
I don’t blame my FRiends here from being confused on the issue of standing, because the issue is the tool of choice for corrupt courts to bounce legal actions they don’t like. All it means is that a party has an actual legal interest in the subject matter of the dispute at hand. Plainly Parler has standing to sue on its own contract. My concern is that the user agreement probably has pretty broad clauses allowing Amazon to do what it has done.
If it were just AWS I’d guess the courts could toss it - they’re not all completely corrupt but there’s enough at critical levels to quash the thing under one pretext or another. But it wasn’t just AWS, it was all the other major vendors as well, reportedly, and that’s a case of restraint of trade too obvious to ignore. Although with sufficient media complicity, they’ll certainly try it.
I mean, if you're a lefty loon, why waste time on a rinky-dink site such as DU, when you have FaceBook and Twitter now on your side?
I guess their donor base will dry up pretty soon now. Sucks to be them.
They signed a contract.
They (Amazon) are claiming a breach of contract for content. The legal basis is what.... obscenity laws?
They can host “pornographic content”, but articles from conservative journalist and parleys by elected leaders and conservatives is “obscene”?
It is easy to be caught up in the hysteria of the moment and cancel culture. Courts are far more antiseptic and the 1st Amendment is the first for a reason.
We have no choice but to let this play out, but Parler will be bigger and better than before and the last week shows the reason we have anti-trust laws. It will be interesting and we will not win them all at each step, but I think the left has overplayed their hand here.
I imagine that they are alleging some antitrust-based cause(s) of action. I can’t remember if that is solely federal jurisdiction or not. That’s been a minute (or a few decades) since I studied the subject. I look forward to reading their complaint later on.
I can ALREADY hear the courts say it: “You don’t have standing!”
Maybe RICO too?
Who chooses the judge wins.
When this many billable hours and a pay-out with potentially a “B” in front of it is on the table you can always find an army of attorneys.
I think some of us are just being snarky on the standing issue. They will find a different way to dismiss Parler’s suit.
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