by Damjan Tutarkov
LaCorte News
A federal judge in Washington state on Thursday rejected Parler’s effort to get the court to require Amazon Web Services to reinstate its services to the social media platform.
U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein in Seattle said Parler “has failed to meet the standard set by Ninth Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court precedent for issuance of a preliminary injunction” by failing to address inflammatory or hateful content on the social network even after the Jan. 6 siege of Capitol Hill.
AWS banned Parler on Jan. 10.
“The Court rejects any suggestion that the public interest favors requiring AWS to host the incendiary speech that the record shows some of Parler’s users have engaged in. At this stage, on the showing made thus far, neither the public interest nor the balance of equities favors granting an injunction in this case,” Rothstein wrote in her decision.