{"id":30602,"date":"2021-01-11T16:53:22","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T00:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30602"},"modified":"2021-01-11T16:53:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T00:53:22","slug":"parler-sues-amazon-asks-court-to-reinstate-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30602","title":{"rendered":"Parler sues Amazon, asks court to reinstate platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parler sued Amazon Monday after the company\u2019s web hosting service dropped the controversial social media platform.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit alleges that the move was politically motivated and violated antitrust law, although experts who spoke with The Hill questioned the basis of the second argument.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon\u2019s decision to cut off service to Parler came after it was used to coordinate and incite last week\u2019s violent insurrection at the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>Apple\u2019s App Store and the Google Play store over the weekend stopped carrying the app, which has pitched itself as a haven for free speech and attracted many conservatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parler sued Amazon Monday after the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30603,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30602\/revisions\/30603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}