(ETH) – Amazon recently announced that is suspending Parler from its web hosting services effective at 11:59 p.m. PT tonight. According to a report from BuzzFeed, they have obtained a letter, which mentions 98 examples of Parler posts that “encourage and incite violence.”
Parler has not immediately responded to USA TODAY’s request for comment but its CEO John Matze wrote about the ban in a post on Parler Saturday night. “Apple will be banning Parler until we give up free speech, institute broad and invasive policies like Twitter and Facebook and we become a surveillance platform by pursuing guilt of those who use Parler before innocence,” Matze wrote.
“They claim it is due to violence on the platform. The community disagrees as we hit number 1 on their store today.” He also stated that more details about the company’s next plans would be “coming soon as we have many options.”
Matze then posted about Amazon saying it “will be shutting off all of our servers in an attempt to completely remove free speech off the internet. There is the possibility Parler will be unavailable on the internet for up to a week as we rebuild from scratch.”
