Out of curiosity how much time for remediation is generally allowed before service is pulled? Surely the precedent is not "you do something bad and we ban you immediately "? In FTA it says AWS generally gives 30 days per their contract with Parler, but I mean in general, if there is a general precedent. Even if Parler wanted to do the right thing here, they were pretty much banned everywhere immediately.
Parler LLC vs. Amazon Web Services Inc
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#32Paragraph 5 seems pretty damaging if AWS really did violate their contract as claimed.
From section 6.1 on Suspension:
We may suspend your or any End User’s right to access or use any portion or all of the Service Offerings immediately upon notice to you if we determine ... (a) your or an End User’s use of the Service Offerings (i) poses a security risk to the Service Offerings or any third party
Then they go on to complain about how AWS has completely terminated them, but that section also doesn't appear favorable.From section 7.2 on Termination:
We may also terminate this Agreement immediately upon notice to you (A) for cause if we have the right to suspend under Section 6
Parler has copious amounts of this violent content going back for months, so it seems like this is a sure case of a "willful and continuing failure" to apply the required moderation in the agreement. IMO this shows an ongoing breach of contract so the "for Cause" clauses would apply.The Anti-Trust argument seems like the strongest here but that's pretty notoriously difficult to succeed with. I guess not too far from the App Store cases going on right now.
The AWS agreement is here: https://aws.amazon.com/agreement/
TLDR: Content promoting violence - clearly more than mere threats given the actions of several users on Jan. 6 - is against the AWS agreement and services can be terminated immediately upon notice.
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#33"Friday night one of the top trending tweets on Twitter was 'Hang Mike Pence.' But AWS has no plans nor has it made any threats to suspend Twitter’s account." Is this true?
> Mr. Matze pointed to the fact that Twitter had recently promoted the phrase “Hang Mike Pence” as a trending topic. (The majority of the discussion on Twitter was about rioters chanting the phrase about the vice president on Wednesday.) “I have seen no evidence Apple is going after them,” Mr. Matze said. “This would appear to be an unfair double standard as every other social media site has the same issues, arguably on a worse scale.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/technology/apple-google-p...
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#35Paragraph 5 seems pretty damaging if AWS really did violate their contract as claimed.
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#36Twitter is also dependent on AWS, as of December. Are they vulnerable too? https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-det...
I think he's going to have a REAL tough time convincing a court that Twitter doesn't moderate content given that his justification for starting Parler was Twitter being too aggressive in moderating...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2020/06/27/parlers-f...
*Offensive probably is the wrong term - content that violates the AWS TOS like calls for violence.
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#37Twitter is also dependent on AWS, as of December. Are they vulnerable too? https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-det...
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#38I have seen so many violent threats and incitements on Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook, and Instagram over the last 5 years that Parler could possibly make the case that they've been singled out, but I doubt it. They're just too unsympathetic of a plaintiff, imho. That said, antitrust battles against Big Tech will dominate the next four years of economic policy, and rightfully so. GAFA is too big, too powerful, too manip…
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#39I have seen so many violent threats and incitements on Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook, and Instagram over the last 5 years that Parler could possibly make the case that they've been singled out, but I doubt it. They're just too unsympathetic of a plaintiff, imho. That said, antitrust battles against Big Tech will dominate the next four years of economic policy, and rightfully so. GAFA is too big, too powerful, too manip…
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#40Today it’s Parler, tomorrow it’s whatever political ideology Big Tech finds inconvenient.