They are trying to paint a picture of racketeering i.e. Amazon, Apple, Twitter, etc. are part of a larger movement trying to harm them. It's in the paranoid conspiracy playbook.
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Parler sues Amazon, asks court to reinstate platform
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Parler - "So what part of the TOS did we break?"
Amazon - "Would you like the, by our counting, 17,371 posts calling for ethnic genocides and rape to be provided as evidence with the slurs left in, or with the slurs left out?"
Yeah I can't imagine Parler's internal emails are going to be good for them in a court case.
I was unaware that Parler or Twitter were e-commerce and streaming companies. lol
They violated TOS. But I do want this to go to court, So everything in parler is in court of record.
Amazon is free to boot off any platform that violates their terms of service. Enjoy getting laughed out of court.
Who would even use them after they got completely clowned by that person who grabbed 70TB of data when Parler's vendors abandoned them? Come on.
Jeff Bezos and his team of multi-million dollar lawyers haven't stopped laughing about this yet.
I'll say this, it's the move I would do if I was Parler's owners. Try and hope I can get some kinda settlement to cash out quickly. It won't work but it's probably better then just rolling over dead.
Ironic that a free speech company is hellbent on censoring other companies' right to free speech 🤣
I see the Beard is getting a lot of work these days, between this and election fraud lawsuits...
Except they've opened themselves to discovery now, which based on plenty of posts circulating, won't be pretty.
It won't work and will probably open themselves to further litigation. A settlement is extremely unlikely to happen.
They will probably send a team of interns and a paralegal to nip it in the bud
It won't get to that point. The AWS contract allows them to end service for any reason, at any time, with no advanced notice. Companies much, much larger that Parlour have tried to negotiate changes and were told to sign or GTFO.
The odds that the contract didn't have an out for Amazon in the case of hate soeech/threats/violence are literally 0%, right?
Seems like a no brainer that amazon would always hold that right. But I'm no contract lawyer.
Seems like a no brainer that amazon would always hold that right. But I'm no contract lawyer.
All web hosting is done on an ad-hoc basis. AWS CloudFront terms of service:
" 1.4. In connection with your use of the Services, you are responsible for maintaining licenses and adhering to the license terms of any software you run. If we reasonably believe any of Your Content violates the law, infringes or misappropriates the rights of any third party, or otherwise violates a material term of the Agreement (including the documentation, the Service Terms, or the Acceptable Use Policy) ("Prohibited Content"), we will notify you of the Prohibited Content and may request that such content be removed from the Services or access to it be disabled. If you do not remove or disable access to the Prohibited Content within 2 business days of our notice, we may remove or disable access to the Prohibited Content or suspend the Services to the extent we are not able to remove or disable access to the Prohibited Content. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we may remove or disable access to any Prohibited Content without prior notice in connection with illegal content, where the content may disrupt or threaten the Services or in accordance with applicable law or any judicial, regulatory or other governmental order or request. In the event that we remove Your Content without prior notice, we will provide prompt notice to you unless prohibited by law. We terminate the accounts of repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances."
Parler signed this TOS agreement, so they have no legal standing here.
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When you don't have a legal argument, you make one up.
They're probably just going to use this as an means to raise money before disappearing.
Amazon isn't required to host this dangerous garbage
Holy moly that's scary.
"Sorry FBI, can't arrest us because we're currently in litigation, thus we're under audit. A smart man told us that once."
The optics of settling with Parler would be really bad. They need to be made an example of.
I hope this guy gets doxed through the major leak.Amazon isn't required to host this dangerous garbage
Wondering if maybe we can expect more flamboyant litigious bullshittery, à la Trump's, from Parler's legal team here. I mean, I can't see this as being anything but PR damage control. Otherwise, they're just purely idiotic to think they stand a chance.
This is going to be VERY difficult for them to prove. If this is the best argument they have, they don't stand a chance. But, these guys on the right don't feel that they need actual evidence to bring a lawsuit.
And it's not even like that kind of posting was all that uncommon there. When you provide an unmoderated, unlimited free speech platform, it inevitably devolves into Nazis calling for the extermination of 'The Other', without fail.
Yep. I mean in the article itself Amazon notified them to clean up twice. They still allowed repeated offending content. They violated this clause, and it's pretty clear cut without needing deep legal knowledge.