Amazon Web Services will kick Parler off its platform on Sunday at 11:59 p.m. Pacific time.
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Amazon will kick Parler off its web servers, leaving the controversial social network to scramble for a new web host.
Tech giants including Apple, Google, and Amazon have all recently backed away from Parler, an app that mainly appealed to far-right conservatives with limited content moderation.
Parler CEO John Matze said the site could be down for up to a week, as "we rebuild from scratch."
"Probably not the end to Parler," one disinformation expert told Insider. "They just have to find another server space."
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Parler
will be kicked off Amazon's web servers early Monday morning, forcing the controversial social networking site to go dark for at least a few days. But experts say that it's unlikely to be the end of the platform. Technology giants including Amazon, Apple, and Google
have taken a flurry of actions against Parler since the insurrection at the US Capitol by a mob of President Donald Trump supporters. While the actions are likely to lead to a decline in Parler 's popularity, experts said the app isn't necessarily dead in the long-term."It is realistic to expect that Parler will find another provider to host their services like AWS," Max Aliapoulios, a computer science Ph. D candidate at New York University focused on understanding and mitigating socio-technical problems like cybercrime and
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