Is Parler coming back next week? According to Parler co-owner Dan Bongino Parler could resume running again early next week, as soon as Monday, February 8th, 2021. After the unexpected firing for CEO John Matze, there has been movement in the background. Bongino told Sean Hannity they are shooting for a Monday re-opening. No guarantees though.
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Speaking with Sean Hannity on Fox News, Parler co-owner Dan Bongino said that the social media platform could resume running again early next week.
“We’re shooting for Monday,” said Bongino. “Monday looks good. Fingers crossed.”
On January 11, Amazon banned the social media platform Parler from its cloud hosting service. Amazon said that Parler presented a “very real risk to public safety,” with Reuters reporting, “Amazon suspended Parler from its Amazon Web Services (AWS) unit, for violating AWS’s terms of services by failing to effectively deal with a steady increase in violent content, according to an email by an AWS Trust and Safety team to Parler.”
This came soon after Parler was also removed from Apple and Google’s app stores, who cited similar concerns regarding the moderation of content. Then-CEO John Matze told Fox News that the site will try to “get back online as quickly as possible,” and described the decision by Apple, Google and Amazon as a “coordinated attack by the tech giants to kill competition in the market place.”
Soon after, Parler filed a lawsuit against Amazon, “claiming that Amazon’s suspension of Parler violated antitrust laws and breached the contract between the two entities.”