(ETH) – A group of Amazon corporate employees is now calling on the company to stop providing cloud services to Parler according to a report from CNBC.
This comes as a tweet on Saturday, by the employee advocacy group Amazon Employees for Climate Justice said Amazon Web Services should “deny Parler services until it removes posts inciting violence, including at the Presidential inauguration.” AWS provides cloud services to Parler that host its website.
Enough is enough. Amazon hosts Parler on @awscloud.
As Amazon workers, we demand Amazon deny Parler services until it removes posts inciting violence, including at the Presidential inauguration.
We cannot be complicit in more bloodshed and violent attacks on our democracy.
— Amazon Employees For Climate Justice (@AMZNforClimate) January 9, 2021
This follows continued pressure that has been mounting for Amazon to discontinue hosting Parler on AWS following the actions made by other tech giants against the social media app in the wake of the deadly U.S. Capitol riot earlier this week. Google removed Parler from its app store for Android users on Friday night and Apple has also threatened to pull Parler from its App Store as well.
