Originally published at: Parler’s CEO Reportedly Forced Into Hiding Over Death Threats | Infostormer.com
Parler’s CEO has reportedly been forced into hiding after receiving death threats. He was on Tucker Carlson’s show a few days back and looked like a man who had no idea what he was getting himself into. He had no comprehension that Amazon and all these other companies would collude to blacklist his site.
The social platform Parler was suspended last week by Amazon, Apple, and Google in the wake of the US Capitol riots on 6 January for ostensibly failing to moderate content inciting hate and violence, prompting the app to file a lawsuit against Amazon Web Services (AWS), accusing the company of violating antitrust laws.
A court filing from the legal team of Parler, a social media app whose user base comprises an extensive number of Donald Trump supporters, has acknowledged that the platform’s CEO John Matze and his family have been forced into hiding over ‘death threats and security breaches’, reports Fox News.
The US microblogging and social networking service had earlier launched an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon after the company ditched it without prior warning from its web hosting service AWS in the wake of the 6 January Capitol riots.
The Jeff Bezos-run tech giant had filed a response to dismiss any “legal basis” to the platform’s claims. Amazon also reportedly complained that its employees have been harassed and targeted with death threats.
However, the filing from Parler’s lawyers, cited by the outlet, argued that it was John Matze who was on the receiving end of death threats.
So much for trying to “build your own” social media site. If you try to “build your own” the entire system will collude against you and you’ll get death threats for the trouble. There’s no guarantees that other alternative tech sites will be able to survive the onslaught that’s underway.
It’s honestly amazing that this type of retard-tier thinking was promoted by people over the past few years. They said that these Silicon Valley monopolies could ban people because of the free market when these sites became monopolies with help from the government. Their rise to this status was not because of a free market.
Myself and a small handful of people were warning about this for years and nobody took our warnings seriously. It’s too bad, because this whole situation could have easily been avoided.