Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, indicated on Monday that big techs are now the “de facto arbiter of free speech,” referring to their recent move to ban President Donald Trump.
"Over the past several weeks, we've reported 98 examples to Parler of posts that clearly encourage and incite violence," Amazon Web Services said, according to court documents.
A web hosting and domain registrar service said Monday that it has not been in contact with Parler, the social media website dumped from Amazon's servers.
Facebook announced on Monday it is removing all content the contains the phrase "stop the steal" ahead of President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration day on Jan. 20.
The U.S. Secret Service is reportedly investigating alleged death threats directed at Vice President Mike Pence by Lin Wood, a vociferous Trump Supporter
Sen. James Lankford (R-Ok.) said Big Tech's recent actions with Apple suspending Parler and the removal of Trump and other conservatives’ accounts from their platforms, show the tech giants do not want Americans to have a dialogue with each other.
Amazon said it was removing Parler from its web hosting service, while Apple said it suspended the social media app from its store. Both companies said Parler allowed violent threats to go unchecked.