Judge Barbara Rothstein issued a ruling on Thursday saying that Parler had failed to meet the legal requirements for a temporary restraining order or injunction.
That decision won’t end the process, but it does mean that the court won’t force Amazon Web Services to let Parler back to its cloud hosting platform. Amazon’s move effectively kicked Parler off the public Internet.
Parler, the alternative social media platform favored by the far right, had sued AWS earlier this month after AWS claimed that Parler had not done enough to remove incitement cases from its website.
Amazon previously said Parler’s lawsuit has “no merit” and argued in a legal letter that Parler had “demonstrated an unwillingness and inability to remove content from Amazon Web Services (‘AWS’) servers that affect public security. threaten.”
Parler CEO John Matze said in a court on Monday that Parler does not have the resources to host itself on its own servers. Parler tried to look for a hosting alternative to AWS from at least six different potential providers after it became clear that Amazon wouldn’t work with it, but Parler was turned down, according to a court complaint.
Parler’s website suddenly appeared online again Sunday afternoon with a message from Matze: “Hello world, is this thing on?” It remains unclear who will actually provide the servers on which Parler’s social network will run.