(ETH) – Alternative social media platform Parler has now gone down following Amazon Web Services’ decision to suspend the conservative network from its cloud hosting service after Wednesday’s U.S. Capitol riot according to a report from Fox News.
CEO John Matze told users to “hold on and come back” as the company figures out how to move forward during an interview on “Mornings with Maria” on Monday. Matze went on to say: “Everyone should hold on and come back,” Matze said. “We may have to go as far as buying and building our own data centers and buying up our own servers if we need to to get back on the internet, you know, but there is risk involved in that given what vendors are doing, the extent they are going to get rid of us.”
“It is going to be devastating to our business, our model, our potential to raise future capital,” he continued. “This could happen to any company anybody at any time.” This comes as Google suspended Parler from its app store on Friday due to what they are saying was a failure to moderate “egregious content” posted by users related to the violent siege on Capitol Hill last week.
According to the report, Screenshots that were taken from Parler and shared on other social media platforms appear to show Parler users openly discussing plans for violence at the rally that preceded the attack on the Capitol, including bringing weapons and imagining how they would wield them against their political opponents.
“Nobody has presented any credible piece of information or evidence that, you know, there is anything problems on Parler that don’t exist on other platforms,” Matze said on Monday. “This really is a double standard. … We see all sorts of nasty threatening content on Twitter, much more of it actually,
in our opinion, and, actually, a lot of content that’s deleted from Parler still remains on Twitter to this day in the form of screenshots. So I don’t understand, you know, what this is really about. Because it is not about holding everybody to account equally. It is about giving preferential treatment to certain people.”
