After the suspension of the Donald Trump from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, the social network where the now former American president had announced he wanted to “emigrate” was also obscured and where the leader of the Lega Matteo Salvini had just joined: it’s about Speak, a very popular platform among sympathizers of the American right that also served to organize the riots of last January 6, whose app was removed a few hours ago by App Store e Google Play and that now too Amazon, which hosted it on its servers, has permanently disabled.
The reason, Amazon explained, is that Parler did not adequately moderate “posts that clearly encourage and incite violence”: of the approximately 100 posts reported in the last week alone, Parler did not intervene on any.
In the spirit of Parler, on the other hand, founded in 2008 by a group of wealthy conservatives, and which has doubled the membership close to the elections: from 4.5 million to 8 million in November alone, up to the current 15 million. The absence of censorship has always made its strong point: “Read the news, speak freely” is the sentence that you read (go) on its home screen, structured in a very similar way to Twitter, with the ability to decide who to follow, to publish photos, and with the only difference that the posts they could be up to 1000 characters long.
The stop of Amazon and the app stores could be the end of the social network, the definitive stop to one of the most frequented forums by that large slice of ultra-right Americans pro Donald Trump, including conspiracy theorists who support theories like that of QAnon. Parler’s CEO himself, John Matze, did not hide the difficulties in finding a new server ready to host the platform and in an interview with Fox News he also accused Apple and Amazon of “stifle free speech».
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