A federal judge on Thursday refused to force Amazon to reintegrate the controversial social network Parler into its cloud service.
Parler had sued Amazon Web Services last week after the tech giant forced it out of business. Amazon cloud service AWS blamed the decision on the social network’s failure to police the platform for threats of violence ahead of this month’s riots at the Capitol. in the lawsuit, Parler accused Amazon of trying to protect Twitter from competition.
The lawsuit claims that AWS blocked Parler in an effort to save Twitter from a growing competitor, weeks after the two companies signed a deal that ensured AWS would support “millions of tweets a day.
But on Thursday U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein in Seattle said Parler’s lawyers had not made a convincing argument.
“Parler has failed to offer more than the hypothesis that AWS gives preferential treatment to Twitter,” Rothstein said. “Importantly, Parler has not presented any evidence that AWS and Twitter acted together in a deliberate restraint of trade. “
Parler CEO John Matze recently said the site could be offline for “longer than expected” as it looks for a new host.
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