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13 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
NEW: Amazon has filed its reply to Parler's lawsuit, listing more than a dozen examples of what it said was violent content on Parler that violated AWS's terms.

Amazon also invokes #Section230, making this a high-profile test of the law Trump despises.

pacermonitor.com/view/LHNWTAI/P…
The examples Amazon cites includes calls for a civil war and the deaths of Democratic lawmakers as well as that of tech CEOs including Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey; members of professional sports leagues; DOT Sec Elaine Chao; and US Capitol Police, among others.
For antitrust nerds, Amazon argues Parler's antitrust allegations don't meet the threshold for a Sherman Act claim, because the complaint doesn't define a relevant market nor how competition was harmed.
Here's the Section 230 argument. Amazon says it is immune from liability because it was engaged in its own platform moderation.

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13 Jan
NEW: YouTube has suspended President Trump’s channel for a week, and potentially longer, after it removed a video that the company says incited violence.
YouTube tells me that Trump’s channel earned a first strike for the video, and under YouTube’s policies, a first strike violation involves a one-week timeout where uploads and streaming are restricted.
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10 Jan
Confirming @BuzzFeedNews' scoop, I've independently obtained a copy of the letter that Amazon sent to Parler announcing plans to boot the company off AWS.
Parler will be deplatformed from AWS at 11:59 pm Pacific time on Sunday for what Amazon told it was repeated examples of violent rhetoric and incitement.

Amazon told Parler that it flagged 98 examples of this type of content and that it will no longer host Parler's website.
Parler’s CEO confirms and says Parler could be off of the internet for up to a week:
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10 Jan
Apple has banned Parler from the iOS App Store for hosting "threats of violence and illegal activity.”

Here’s the message Apple sent to Parler explaining the decision, which Apple has provided:
Apple’s statement on the matter:
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9 Jan
Welp, Twitter's ban evasion policy is about to get tested.
And within seconds, they were gone, already restricted under the terms that Twitter had laid out in its earlier statements.
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Twitter has just banned Trump:
88 million Twitter followers, gone in an instant. Poof. End of an era.
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