Parler hopes to be back up in a week

 Fox News:

Although "tech tyrants Google, Apple and Amazon wiped Parler out, the service will return" soon, Fox News contributor Dan Bongino said on Monday.

Parler went down early Monday following Amazon Web Services' decision to suspend it from its cloud hosting service after Wednesday's U.S. Capitol riot. CEO John Matze told "Sunday Morning Futures" that the site will try to "get back online as quickly as possible," after writing on the platform that the site may be unavailable for up to a week.

Google announced Friday that it would suspend social media platform Parler’s listing from its Play Store due to a failure to moderate "egregious content" posted by users related to the violent siege on Capitol Hill this week.

A spokesperson for Google confirmed in a statement to Fox News that its "longstanding policies" require that apps with user-generated content have measures in place to remove certain obscene content – including posts that incite violence. Developers agree to those terms.

"We’re aware of continued posting in the Parler app that seeks to incite ongoing violence in the U.S.," a Google spokesperson wrote in a statement. "In light of this ongoing and urgent public safety threat, we are suspending the app’s listings from the Play Store until it addresses these issues."

Bongino "begged" for people to support Parler. Parler has "terms of service" and a code of conduct that users have to abide by, Bongino said. He also dismissed the notion that the service has "lax moderation" because "anyone can report a post that violates the code of conduct."

"It’s not about the money. It’s not about anything. If Parler goes down, everyone else will be next," Bongino said, pushing back against the arguments that the tech giants were within their rights to remove Parler because they are autonomous private companies engaging in a "free market."
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I have been scanning Parler for a few months and do not recall any promotion of violence.  There are several posts that oppose Democrat policies some of which I find interesting.  There are also links to other material that Facebook has significantly cut back on and made itself less interesting in the process. 

I have certainly not been motivated to violence by anything I have read on the site.  I am not aware of any Antifa like activity coming from the site.  It would be interesting to see how Antifa communicates its operations against federal facilities and law enforcement.  What sites do they use and have those sites been blocked by the tech oligarchs?

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