AMAZON CITES DEATH THREATS ON PARLER

Amazon cited a series of death threats directed at top tech executives and Democratic lawmakers in a court filing Tuesday urging a judge to keep the social media platform Parler offline.

Attorneys for Amazon defended the company’s move on Tuesday, saying Parler demonstrated an “unwillingness and inability” to remove content that “threatens the public safety, such as by inciting and planning the rape, torture, and assassination of named public officials and private citizens.”

Parler sued Amazon on Monday, alleging Amazon Web Services violated antitrust law and breached the companies’ contractual arrangement when the tech giant removed the platform that is popular with conservatives because of its hands-off approach to content moderation.