UPDATED 18:26 EDT / FEBRUARY 15 2021

POLICY

Right-leaning social network Parler is back online after finding new web host

The right-leaning social network Parler came back online today, just over a month after it had its account suspended by Amazon Web Services Inc.

Parler, which is a Twitter alternative popular with conservatives and members of the alt-right thanks to its lack of content moderation, was effectively taken offline in January after AWS suspended its account precisely for that moderation policy.

“Speak freely and express yourself openly, without fear of being ‘deplatformed’ for your views,” Parler states on its new website.

Older content that was posted to Parler before the service vanished is no longer available on the site, but Parler, in its first post on its “new” official account, said, “We will not be canceled.”

Although AWS gave Parler’s lack of moderation as the official reason for suspending its account, that move came shortly after it was revealed that the site was being used by rioters at the U.S. Capitol to organize themselves. The AWS ban came just days after Apple Inc. and Google LLC removed Parler from their respective app stores. Those moves effectively cut Parler off from the world, and for the past few weeks anyone visiting Parler.com was greeted with a static message that promised the site would be back online soon.

Parler has now made good on that promise, with the site bearing a redesigned logo and a link to a new community guidelines document that states the company will not “knowingly allow itself to be used as a tool for crime, civil torts or other unlawful acts.”

Still, Parler insists in the new guidelines that it will remove content as little as possible, in what appears to be an attempt to balance its claim to be a platform for unrestricted speech with the scrutiny it’s facing for allegedly allowing violent extremists to organize.

“In no case will Parler decide what will be removed or filtered, or whose account will be removed, on the basis of the opinion expressed within the content at issue,” Parler’s guidelines state.

When it was first removed from AWS, analysts said Parler would find it difficult to convince anyone to host its servers. Its website now directs traffic to an IP address that’s reportedly linked to a California-based cloud services provider called SkySilk Inc.

Image: Parler

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