In mid-January, Amazon, Apple and Google ended their commercial relationships with the social media app “Parler”, citing inadequate moderation policies. Over the course of two days, Parler was removed from the App Store, the Google Play Store and Amazon Web Services (AWS). This removed both the app and the web and cloud infrastructure it relied on, effectively wiping it off the internet. Because these companies removed Parler from their platforms, this has been referred to as “deplatforming” Parler.
