Parler CEO John Matze said his controversial social media platform may never come online again after major service providers accused him of not policing violent content and expelled it from their networks, according to a report.
Matze said in an interview with Reuters on Wednesday that he did not know when, or if, the new group would be back.
“It may never be. We don’t know yet, ”he said, but then it sounded on a more optimistic note.
“It may take days, it may take weeks, but Parler will come back and when we do we will be stronger,” Parler told the media.
On Tuesday, the CEO criticized efforts to silence his application as “sick” and “evil”, saying the actions that technology companies have taken against Parler go against the spirit of the constitution.
“I think he’s sick,” Matze told Fox News. “This is not what the Constitution says. That is not what the Constitution is about, banning more than 10 million US voters from the Internet, preventing people from having freedom of expression. ”
Parler users have been unable to access the Twitter-like platform since Amazon Web Services started their servers’ website on Monday morning.
Apple and Google also removed Parler from their app stores last week due to the company’s alleged failure to remove threats of violence posted by its users.
The two-year-old company – which is under scrutiny after last week’s US Capitol riots – filed a lawsuit accusing Amazon Web Services of breach of contract and violation of an antitrust law over its decision to stop hosting the site.
In response, AWS said it repeatedly warned Parler of its users’ violent posts and that the company failed to remove them immediately.
In his interview with Reuters, Matze said Parler was talking to more than one cloud computing service, but declined to disclose names, citing the likelihood that the companies involved would be harassed.
He said the best result would be if the app could return to Amazon.com Inc.
“It is difficult to know how many people are telling us that we can no longer do business with them,” said Matze.
He said the app was also kicked out of the online payments service Stripe and lost its Scylla Enterprise database, as well as access to Twilio and the messaging app at the Slack workplace.
He also said it was started by American Express, but the company said it did not have a direct business relationship with Parler, according to Reuters.
ScyllaDB and Twilio told the channel that Parler violated their policies on violent content. Slack and Stripe did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment.