Parler is back online with a new hosting partner

Will it be back for good?

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Controversial social networkParlerhas made a comeback after a month-long hiatus. The platform, which says it was set up to champion free speech, went offline last month after several major tech firms revoked its access toweb hostingservices and was removed it from the top app stores.

On January 10, the Parler website went down after AWS said that it found a number of postsinciting violence. At that point, the site was effectively silenced, asGoogle’sPlay StoreandApple’s App Store had both also removed Parler from their services.

Parler did make a brief return of sorts after signing up with Epik, adomain registrarknown for accommodating far-right and extremist content. It has faced an uphill legal battle since AWS revoked its hosting services, with a US judge recently indicating that no contract terms had been breached by the termination of service.

Guess who’s back

Parler’s return is reportedly “built on sustainable, independent technology,” limiting the likelihood of the platform being taken offline again.

However, it may not be not quite ready for use yet for everyone, as users with existing accounts can access the site now, but new signups will not begin until next week. There have also been reports of some old posts not being carried over to the new version of the site.

In other news, Parler confirmed that it had fired its old CEO John Matze and replaced him with Mark Meckler, the co-founder of the US right-wing group Tea Party Patriots. Meckler issued a robust defense of the platform on its return, asserting that it would “thrive as the premier social-media platform dedicated to free speech,privacy, and civil dialogue."

However, while Parler claims to be politically neutral, in reality, it became a haven for extremist right-wing content, some of which promoted hatred and violence. Although the web version is back online, for now, there is no sign of Google or Apple returning the platform to their respective app stores.

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Barclay has been writing about technology for a decade, starting out as a freelancer with ITProPortal covering everything from London’s start-up scene to comparisons of the best cloud storage services.  After that, he spent some time as the managing editor of an online outlet focusing on cloud computing, furthering his interest in virtualization, Big Data, and the Internet of Things.

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