On Monday, Parler filed a lawsuit against Amazon, accusing the company of breaching its contract and violating a century-old antitrust law by promoting Twitter at its competitor’s expense. Amazon had removed Parler from its servers on Monday morning, claiming the conservative social media platform refused to remove posts advocating violence at the Capitol riots last Wednesday.

Due to Amazon’s removal, “Parler will be offline for a financially devastating period,” the lawsuit claims. It alleges that Amazon applied a double standard, breaking its contract with Parler over a small number of posts while preserving its ties with Twitter, where threats of violence reached into the thousands on Friday.

Amazon acted just as conservatives were flocking from Twitter to Parler, following Twitter’s ban of President Donald Trump’s accounts.

“Given the context of Parler’s looming threat to Twitter and the fact that the Twitter ban might not long muzzle the President if he switched to Parler, potentially bringing tens of millions of followers with him, AWS moved to shut down Parler,” the lawsuit alleges.

Oddly, Amazon leaked the story of Parler’s termination to BuzzFeed more than an hour before it bothered to inform Parler itself. BuzzFeed reported that AWS would remove Parler at 11:59 p.m. Pacific time Sunday night, in an article published at 6:07 p.m. Pacific on Saturday. Amazon did not email Parler about the termination until 7:19 p.m. Pacific, “meaning AWS leaked the letter to BuzzFeed before sending it to Parler.”

Parler’s contract with AWS stipulated that AWS must give notice 30 days before the termination of a contract.

AWS’s “death blow … could not come at a worse time for Parler—a time when the company is surging with the potential of even more explosive growth in the next few days.”

Due to Amazon’s removal, “Parler will be offline for a financially devastating period,” the lawsuit claims. It alleges that Amazon applied a double standard, breaking its contract with Parler over a small number of posts while preserving its ties with Twitter, where threats of violence reached into the thousands on Friday.

Amazon acted just as conservatives were flocking from Twitter to Parler, following Twitter’s ban of President Donald Trump’s accounts.

“Given the context of Parler’s looming threat to Twitter and the fact that the Twitter ban might not long muzzle the President if he switched to Parler, potentially bringing tens of millions of followers with him, AWS moved to shut down Parler,” the lawsuit alleges.

Oddly, Amazon leaked the story of Parler’s termination to BuzzFeed more than an hour before it bothered to inform Parler itself. BuzzFeed reported that AWS would remove Parler at 11:59 p.m. Pacific time Sunday night, in an article published at 6:07 p.m. Pacific on Saturday. Amazon did not email Parler about the termination until 7:19 p.m. Pacific, “meaning AWS leaked the letter to BuzzFeed before sending it to Parler.”

Parler’s contract with AWS stipulated that AWS must give notice 30 days before the termination of a contract.

AWS’s “death blow … could not come at a worse time for Parler—a time when the company is surging with the potential of even more explosive growth in the next few days.”

Due to Amazon’s removal, “Parler will be offline for a financially devastating period,” the lawsuit claims. It alleges that Amazon applied a double standard, breaking its contract with Parler over a small number of posts while preserving its ties with Twitter, where threats of violence reached into the thousands on Friday.

Amazon acted just as conservatives were flocking from Twitter to Parler, following Twitter’s ban of President Donald Trump’s accounts.

“Given the context of Parler’s looming threat to Twitter and the fact that the Twitter ban might not long muzzle the President if he switched to Parler, potentially bringing tens of millions of followers with him, AWS moved to shut down Parler,” the lawsuit alleges.

Oddly, Amazon leaked the story of Parler’s termination to BuzzFeed more than an hour before it bothered to inform Parler itself. BuzzFeed reported that AWS would remove Parler at 11:59 p.m. Pacific time Sunday night, in an article published at 6:07 p.m. Pacific on Saturday. Amazon did not email Parler about the termination until 7:19 p.m. Pacific, “meaning AWS leaked the letter to BuzzFeed before sending it to Parler.”

Parler’s contract with AWS stipulated that AWS must give notice 30 days before the termination of a contract.

AWS’s “death blow … could not come at a worse time for Parler—a time when the company is surging with the potential of even more explosive growth in the next few days.”

Yet “worse than the timing is the result—Parler has tried to find alternative companies to host it and they have fallen through. It has no other options. Without AWS, Parler is finished as it has no way to get online,” the lawsuit notes.

A delay of “even one day” in the court granting a restraining order and forcing Amazon to resurrect Parler’s account “could also sound Parler’s death knell as President Trump and others move on to other platforms. It is no wonder, then, that competitor Twitter’s CEO has heartily endorsed efforts to remove Parler from the public sphere.”

The lawsuit argued that AWS engaged in a clear double standard by attacking Parler. “By pulling the plug on Parler but leaving Twitter alone despite identical conduct by users on both sites, AWS reveals that its expressed reasons for suspending Parler’s account are but pretext,” it claims.

The lawsuit notes that Amazon claimed to find 98 examples of posts that clearly encourage and incite violence on Parler. “However, the day before, on Friday, one of the top trends on Twitter was ‘Hang Mike Pence,’ with over 14,000 tweets. … And earlier last week, a Los Angeles Times columnist observed that Twitter and other social media platforms are partly culpable for the Capital [sic] Hill riot, by allowing rioters to communicate and rile each other up.”

“Yet these equivalent, if not greater, violations of AWS’s terms of service by Twitter have apparently been ignored by AWS,” the lawsuit notes, bitterly.

Parler brings three claims against Amazon. It accuses AWS of violating the Sherman Anti-Trust Act by “contracting or conspiring to restrain trade or commerce.” It accuses AWS of breach of contract “by not providing thirty days’ notice before terminating its account.” Finally, it accuses Amazon of “tortious interference with a contract or business expectancy.” By terminating Parler’s contract, “AWS will intentionally interfere with the contracts Parler has with millions of its present users, as well as with the users it is projected to gain this week.”

Parler has over 12 million users under contract, according to the lawsuit.

The lawsuit asks the Washington State district court to issue a temporary restraining order and an order forcing AWS to maintain Parler’s account until further notice from the court. It also seeks treble damages for the egregious attack on Parler’s ability to do business.

The lawsuit appears to be on firm footing, and it seeks an order as soon as possible. Stay tuned for more news on this.

Amazon also faces at least one lawsuit for excluding conservative and Christian nonprofits from its charity program, Amazon Smile, relying on the scandal-plagued far-left smear factory the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The SPLC has long pressured Big Tech companies to blacklist conservative organizations that the SPLC falsely smears as “hate groups” and lists along with the Ku Klux Klan. A similar bias may be at work in this situation.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2021/01/11/breaking-parler-sues-amazon-asks-court-to-reverse-illegal-death-blow-n1331525

In the municipality of San Bartolomé de Tirajana on Gran Canaria, it is probably only a matter of time before things escalate in terms of migration. The residents of El Salobre and Lomo de Los Azules are fed up. They have increasingly to protect their property and are being left in the lurch by the authorities. The situation is getting worse and worse.

Since the underage ” refugees” moved into the camp created there a few weeks ago for 160 people, the residents have not been able to rest. Again and again, the migrants climb over the fences of their properties and show no respect even to elderly people.All the cries for help from the residents have so far gone unheeded. The situation is becoming increasingly worrying. Mayor Conchi Narváez ( Socialist Party of Spain) is finally asked to take up the matter and provide more protective measures. The streetlights should not be switched off at night and the police should be more present at all times of the day.Meanwhile, another migrant boat reached the beach of Amadores on Gran Canaria yesterday at around 09:40 am. The persons on board were 15 people from countries south of the Sahara. If this boat already made it to the beach during the day – unnoticed by radar – it is unclear how many boats reach the islands after dark.

https://www.kanarenmarkt.de/164465/migranten-krise-gran-canaria-bis-es-eskaliert.html/amp

This week, the Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV) presented its electoral program for the elections of March 2021 to elect the 150 representatives of the 38th legislature of the Lower House, for a four-year term.

In this sense, the conservative political formation has introduced several new features to its anti-migration and anti-Islam programme. The party led by Geert Wilders wants to establish a ministry of “immigration, remigration and de-Islamization”, advocating the end of asylum and detention and opting for “the expulsion of irregular migrants” from the Netherlands .

According to the Dutch newspaper Trouw, the opposition party’s electoral program mainly focuses on measures to “safeguard the culture, way of life and fundamental values” of the Netherlands. The political party also believes that “street terrorists, migrants, often Moroccans, terrorize the Dutch”.

The party also attacked Islam, denouncing “the politically correct destruction of the country’s own identity”. In addition, the PVV called for schools not only to hoist the Dutch flag every day, but also to pay close attention to “acquired western freedoms” in the classroom, the newspaper reported.

The Netherlands has meanwhile been shocked by the news of a 35-year-old man who stabbed a 16-year-old girl in Montfoort in the night from Saturday to Sunday. He is, according to the local political party Lokaal Montfoort, a Syrian “refugee”. The girl is currently in hospital.

The Mayor of Montfoort Petra van Hartskamp said in a response to Hart van Nederland that she was shocked by what had happened. She did not want to comment however.

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/01/11/wilders-wants-to-establish-ministry-of-immigration-remigration-and-de-islamization/

by Giulio Meotti‏

Twitter is just like Pravda. It is a monopoly. There is no other place to go.In the USSR, they had to invent ‘samizdat’ (self-publishing) to get around it. This is the comment on Twitter’s closing of Donald Trump’s account by a leftist economist, Branko Milanovic.

That the largest social networks in the world have banned the president of the United States speaks much about the problem of freedom of thought we have created.

Because we created it. We have given all this power to some Californian kids and their start-ups and we have allowed them to become a monopoly, the “Gafa”, and now they are chasing those who are ideologically opposed to them, becoming publishers.

They created a brilliant and infernal mechanism: censorship in the name of freedom, exclusion in the name of inclusion, discrimination in the name of the fight against discrimination, hatred in the name of the fight against hatred, intolerance in the name of tolerance.

Soon there will be no more mis-steps on race, gender, Islam, climate and much more. They will also check for commas. And they will also banner people on the left who are not entirely aligned, as is already happening.

“Cancel culture” is a leftist creation attacking many on the Left as well, like J.K. Rowling.

Twitter and Facebook have become political tools: Trump is censored, Ayatollah Khamenei is not; pro Israelis are attacked, pro Palestinians are welcomed.

Here, in fact, there is no left or right, there is the mental health of Western societies in the grip of conformity, the lack of pluralism, political homologation, the crisis of alternatives, a gigantic Netflix of information and entertainment.

And their answer is even unquestionable: “It’s the market, beauty”. In fact George Orwell when he wrote “1984” did not imagine that the dictatorship of thought, Newspeak, the Ministry of Information and the antiphrasis would come not from the state, but from private individuals. And that is why it is all the more difficult to fight them.

They are doing and will do a great deal of cleaning up of accounts, books, articles, journalists, ideas and words “for our good”. Social media, conceived as places of emancipation, have become machines for producing extreme thinking, marginalizing nuances. Minorities organize themselves in herds to silence the opposition. The hyper-democracy produced by digital technology will lead to dictatorship. It is no longer conceivable to utter a speech contrary to their leftist “doxa”.

Any debate is immediately disqualified. To doubt is to be a racist. Progressive discourses have gradually become an arsenal that claims to prohibit any alternative discourse. Reality is called to bow to the hegemony of the moral of the moment.

Faced with this shipwreck of postmodernity, a phrase by the Russian philosopher and writer Nicolaj Berdjaev comes to my mind:

“Utopias seem to be much more achievable than previously believed. And currently we are faced with a much more distressing question: how to avoid their realization and return to a less utopian and ‘perfect’ but freer society?”.

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/294643