According to a report, Parler CEO John Matze said his controversial social media platform would never be online again after major service providers accused it of not monitoring violent content and launched it from their networks, according to a report.
Matze said Wednesday in an interview with Reuters that he did not know when, or if, the new equipment would return.
“It simply came to our notice then. We don’t know yet, ”he said, but then a more optimistic note sounded.
“It may take days, it may take weeks, but Parler will come back and when we do we will be stronger,” Parler told reporters.
On Tuesday, the CEO criticized efforts to silence her application as “sick” and “evil,” saying the actions companies of technology companies have taken against Parler went against the spirit of the Constitution.
“I think he’s sick,” Matze told Fox News. “It is not what the Constitution said. That’s not what the Constitution stands for, which bans more than ten million American voters on the Internet and bans people’s freedom of expression. “
Parler users have not been able to access the Twitter-like platform since Amazon Web Services booted the site from its servers in the early hours of Monday.
Apple and Google also withdrew Parler from their app stores last week over the company’s alleged failure to remove threats of violence posted by its users.
The two-year-old – who has been under scrutiny following last week’s riots at the US Capitol – has filed a lawsuit accusing Amazon Web Services of breaching the contract and violating antitrust law for its decision to stop to host the site. .
In response, AWS said it repeatedly warned Parler about its users ’violent posts and that the company was unable to remove them immediately.
In his interview with Reuters, Matze said Parler was talking to more than one cloud computing service, but declined to disclose names, citing the likelihood that the companies involved would be harassed.
He said the best result would be if the app could go back to Amazon.com Inc.
“It’s hard to keep track of how many people tell us we can no longer do business with them,” Matze said.
He said the app was also kicked out of the Stripe online payment service and lost its Scylla Enterprise database, as well as access to Twilio and the messaging app on the Slack workplace.
He also said he was ripped off by American Express, but the company said it had no direct business relationship with Parler, according to Reuters.
ScyllaDB and Twilio told the media that Parler violated their policies on violent content. Slack and Stripe did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Reuters.