Judge Barbara Rothstein issued a decision on Thursday saying that Parler did not meet the legal requirements for a temporary or injunction restraining order.
That decision does not end the dispute, but it does mean that the court will not force Amazon Web Services to allow Parler to return to its cloud hosting platform. Amazon’s move effectively took Parler off the public internet.
Parler, the alternative social media platform favored by the far right, sued AWS earlier this month after AWS claimed that Parler did not do enough to remove instances of incitement from its website.
Amazon previously said that Parler’s lawsuit “has no merit” and argued in a legal document that Parler had “shown reluctance and inability to remove content that threatens public security from Amazon Web Services (‘AWS’) servers”.
Parler CEO John Matze said in a lawsuit on Monday that Parler does not have the resources to host on his own servers. Parler tried to look for a hosting alternative to AWS from at least six different potential providers after it became clear that Amazon would not work with it, but Parler was refused, according to a court case.
Parler’s website suddenly reappeared online on Sunday afternoon with a message from Matze: “Hello, world, is this on?” It is not yet clear who might actually end up providing the servers on which Parler’s social network will run.