Amazon Responds to Parler Lawsuit Detailing Chilling Threats From Users: ‘Burn Down Amazon Delivery Trucks’
“This case is not about suppressing speech or stifling viewpoints,” Amazon said in a brief filed Tuesday. “Instead, this case is about Parler’s demonstrated unwillingness and inability to remove from the servers of Amazon Web Services… content that threatens the public safety, such as by inciting and planning the rape, torture, and assassination of named public officials and private citizens.”
“After the notice of Parler’s account suspension, Parler users began posting threats of physical violence to Amazon delivery drivers, Amazon facilities, and Amazon executives. True and correct copies of examples of these threats are attached.”
“Time to burn down Amazon delivery trucks. Keep buying them till they reverse course,” one Parler user wrote, according to the brief, which was filed in court on Tuesday.
“It’d be a shame if those 77 #aws [Amazon Web Service] servers were blown into the stratosphere in retaliation for the #purge,” another Parler user wrote.
Another Parler user called for the death of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos , Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey , and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg .
Trump Calls for No Violence in First Video After Impeachment: ‘No True Supporter of Mine Could Ever Endorse Political Violence’
In the video, the president did not directly address his impeachment, but said, “I unequivocally condemn the violence that we saw last week. Violence and vandalism have absolutely no place in our country and no place in our movement.”
“Mob violence goes against everything I believe in and everything our movement stands for. No true supporter of mine could ever endorse political violence,” Trump continued. “No true supporter of mine could ever disrespect law enforcement or our great American flag. No true supporter of mine could ever threaten or harass their fellow Americans. If you do any of these things, you are not supporting our movement, you’re attacking it and you’re attacking our country. We cannot tolerate it.”
He addressed the reports of additional protests and “potential threats” in the next week and said, “There must be no violence, no lawbreaking, and no vandalism of any kind. Everyone must follow our laws.”
