Social media app Parler, suspended after Capitol riots, may not return: CEO
Social media platform Parler, which has gone dark after
being cut off by major service providers that accused the app of failing to
police violent content, may never get back online, said its CEO John Matze.
As a procession of business vendors severed ties with the two-year-old
site following the storming of the US Capitol last week,
Matze said in an interview with Reuters on Wednesday that he does not know when
or if it will return.
"It could be never," he said. "We don't know
yet." The app said in a legal filing it has over 12 million users.
Matze said that Parler was talking to more than one cloud
computing service but refused to disclose names, citing the likelihood of
harassment for the companies involved.
He said the best thing would be if Parler could get back on Amazon.
Parler on Monday filed a lawsuit against the company, which Amazon.com Inc said has no
merit. Matze said the company was considering suing other vendors but declined
to say more.
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