Apple, Google and Amazon have conspired to shut down the conservative social media platform Parler after millions of pro-life conservatives moved to the social media network following the decision by Facebook, Twitter and other social media giants to ban President Donald trump and censor conservatives. As censorship has increased, pro-life and conservative Americans have moved to other social media networks like Parler and LifeNews has gained almost 70,000 followers looking for alternatives to Twitter so they can get the latest pro-life news and information free from censorship. But over the weekend, Apple and Google both banned Parler from their stores and Amazon dropped Parler as a customer. Parler had been purchasing server space from Amazon and the web site is now down completely after Amazon summarily dumped them because it allows free speech to flourish even if it supports President Trump and concerns over election fraud. Apple warned Parler’s owners Friday that the app would be removed if they didn’t make major policy changes — mainly limits on free speech that Parler owners considered too onerous. “There is no place on our platform for threats of violence and illegal activity,” Apple said in a statement to NBC News. “Parler has not taken adequate measures to address the proliferation of these threats to people’s safety.” Apple and Google’s decisions to ban Parler from its stores did not shut down Parler but that happened when Amazon took down it servers. Parler CEO John Matze said on Fox’s “Sunday Morning Futures” that the Big tech companies had colluded “to make sure that at the same time we would lose access to not only our apps, but they’re shutting all of our servers off tonight, off the Internet.” He said the companies falsely claim Parler is responsible for the Capitol riots on January 6, even though the companies took no action against any social media platforms last year as Antifa and BLM rioted across the nation. “They made an attempt to not only kill the apps but to actually destroy the entire company. But it’s not just these three companies; every vendor, from text message services to email providers to our lawyers all ditched us too, on the same day, and they’re trying to falsely claim that we were somehow responsible for the events on [Jan.] 6.” Matze indicated Parler is considering legal action against the Big tech firms once it obtains new legal counsel. He also said Parler was in no way organizing any violence or rioting and noted that similar discussions were taking place on Twitter. Parler is working to get back online “as quickly as possible, but we’re having a lot of trouble, because every vendor we talk to won’t work with us, because if Apple doesn’t approve and Google doesn’t approve, they won’t,” Matze said on Fox. He added that it will be incredibly difficult to get all of the user data moved from its Amazon servers to a new one. Parler was the number one app on Google at the time the company banned Parler. Matze said the actions taken against Parler “would put anybody out of business.” “They could destroy anybody. If they did any app, any company, it would completely destroy them,” he added. “I totally see the danger here. What they’re doing, and the amount of the power they have, is not just frightening, it’s actually extremely scary.”
