Parler Forced Offline After Amazon Pulls Hosting Services
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Parler has gone offline after Amazon made good on its promise to drop the controversial social media site from its AWS web hosting services. Amazon pulled the plug at 11:59 p.m. Pacific time, saying that Parler wasn’t properly moderating its content and the violence being called for on the site posed “a very real risk to public safety.”
Advertisement Parler CEO John Matze announced on his site early Monday that service would likely be interrupted for a while and he called Parler his “last stand on the internet.”
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The University of Cambridge has voted against a proposal requiring staff and students to be “respectful” of differing views and “diverse identities”.
A total of 86.9 per cent of the governing body objected to the proposal, opting instead for academic freedom and a policy that emphasises “tolerance” of differing views rather than respect.
The motion essentially prevents “no-platforming”, opening the door for Cambridge university to host “gender critical” feminists and other controversial speakers – an issue that has led to protests in other universities.
“Freedom of speech is a right that sits at the heart of the university. This statement is a robust defence of that right,” insisted Cambridge’s vice-chancellor, Stephen Toope.