Amazon is sued by Parler after banning the social-media app from AWS

Parler, the social-media service popular among the far right, filed a lawsuit against Amazon on Monday, alleging antitrust violations.

Over the weekend, Amazon knocked Parler off its cloud-hosting service, saying Parler failed to moderate threats of violence following last week’s deadly siege of the US Capitol.

Parler alleged that Amazon’s decision was politically motivated and breached a contract that entails Amazon Web Services supporting posts published on Parler. The lawsuit said AWS was required to give Parler a 30-day notice before terminating service.

It also alleged that Amazon’s action was anticompetitive since it didn’t take similar action against Twitter, which also uses AWS.

“AWS’s decision to effectively terminate Parler’s account is apparently motivated by political animus,” Parler’s lawsuit said. “It is also apparently designed to reduce competition in the microblogging services market to the benefit of Twitter.”

The suit is seeking a temporary restraining order against AWS to prevent the service from shutting down Parler’s account at the end of Monday.

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