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Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by mplewis on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @12:04PM (#25749764)
Read the suspension letter. AWS suspended them BECAUSE they refused to moderate the problem accounts.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/amazon-p...

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Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by hnburnsy on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @01:15PM (#25750939)
Parler stated in its lawsuit that it removed all the content that Amazon pointed out...

'On January 8, 2021, AWS brought concerns to Parler about user content that encouraged violence. Parler addressed them, and then AWS said it was “okay” with Parler.'

'The next day, January 9, 2021, AWS brought more “bad” content to Parler and Parler took down all of that content by the evening'

https://www.scribd.com/document/490405156/Parler-sues-Amazon

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Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by hnburnsy on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @03:25PM (#25753003)
also Parler wrote in the lawsuit...

"AWS knew its allegations contained in the letter it leaked to the press that Parler was not able to find and remove content that encouraged violence was false—because over the last few days Parler had removed everything AWS had brought to its attention and more. Yet AWS sought to defame Parler nonetheless."

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Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by tzs on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @06:19PM (#25755424)
Amazon did not want Parler to moderate content pointed out by Amazon. Amazon wanted Parler to find that kind of content and moderate it itself.
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Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by hnburnsy on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @07:41PM (#25756311)
How long has Amazon been asking them to moderate violent content? The lawsuit says it was a three day timeline, start to suspension, and then 36 hours until they were taken offline. I haven't seen any comment from Amazon talking about the timeline on their decision. I get a pit in my stomach thinking that in the span of 3 days an internet business with +10 million users can get shut down instantly. Was there no middle ground where they worked collaboratively to let Parler pause, clean up, and get moderation in place? Sure the CEO was bombastic, but in the lawsuit they said Amazon ghosted them and that their contract said they get 30 days.
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Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by tzs on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @08:52PM (#25756973)
The current AWS Acceptable Use Policy has been in place since September 16th, 2016. It's not like Amazon suddenly changed the rules with little notice.

If you are going to run a site full of user content, you really need to read the rules you are agreeing to regarding what content services you depend on such as web hosting allows, and put in place mechanisms to keep your users from posting that kind of content and to find and remove it when it does get through.

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