AWS blocked Parler?

Jan 8, 2021 58 Comments

Does anyone have an impression that AWS coordinated with Twitter, Apple and Facebook to block Trump and his supporters from using Parler today?

Parler app was unresponsive most of the day. Incidentally, Redfin app (also backed by AWS) was also unresponsive. AWS health dashboard seems clean, but wonder if anyone else noticed more weird things going on today.

UPDATE: while it's unclear whether AWS sabotaged Parler on Friday, they straight up kicked them off service on Saturday: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/amazon-parler-aws

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  • Amazon
    HdQo13

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    HdQo13
    I have no knowledge of this, but I don’t think they blocked it. Makes more sense that Parler got a huge surge of traffic and they got overloaded.

    However, I also wouldn’t put it past AWS to do that. Every other tech company has been colluding together to wipe all conservative voices from their platforms today.
    Jan 8, 2021 14
    • Amazon
      🥑 toasts

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      🥑 toasts
      People armed with weapons over take office, steal mails and computers of elected officials and force them into lockdown. Bascially trying to overthrow election results and attempt a coup, still trump supporters — “Nothing happened”, give me a fking break! I don’t give a shit which party you voted, stop being a sore loser and accept the outcome of a democratic election.

      Also +1 to person above, the fact you people call yourselves conservative disgusts me and gives a shitty name of equate conservatives = conspiracy loving nut jobs. What happened to conservatism that is about family and traditional values.
      Jan 9, 2021
    • Plenty of intellectual conservativism out there. You just need to look beyond fervent Trump supporters.

      https://www.city-journal.org/trumps-exit
      Jan 9, 2021
  • Microsoft / Sales
    Tarkus

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    Tarkus
    AWS employees should demand that their leadership provide an ultimatum to Parler, immediately improve moderation on your platform or find another cloud/data center provider.
    Jan 9, 2021 6
    • MZ
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      2673738262
      Private companies don’t have moral obligations since they include many people with different moral views. They do business the only duty of which is to comply with the law.
      We shall allow all restaurants and gyms to open and allow people to decide whether they want to visit them. “Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each State.” — is one of the basic human rights
      Jan 9, 2021
    • Amazon / Biz Dev
      eldrick

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      eldrick
      AWS has warned them 98 times over the last months to improve their moderation. They had content that violates the AWS terms of service. This was the last straw.

      As a conservative I believe in free enterprise. It's like if I own a bar, and say some nazis came in and started a fight. I think it's my right to ban them from my bar.
      Jan 11, 2021
  • Amazon
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    ?
    Jan 8, 2021 5
  • Aws allows porn and violence. If aws is all of sudden high and mighty it would shut down Twitter, Reddit and many other sites.
    Jan 9, 2021 3
  • Google
    mTqD40

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    mTqD40
    I don't know if they need a coordination. I'm sure aws employees are proud of this move.
    Jan 9, 2021 2
    • Apple
      yoIY331

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      yoIY331
      🇨🇳 would be prouder. Imagine how much easier their diplomats’ jobs just became having these talking points to throw at their 🇺🇸 counterparts.
      Sure. The US can still push through, being the stronger country after all. But they’ll just look like clowns.
      Jan 9, 2021
    • Indeed, US has proven themselves to be no better than China here. So much for all the talk of freedom. They should go all the way, force everyone to use WeChat and monitor social credit score based on how strongly you support Critical Race Theory.
      Jan 9, 2021