Parler 's new web host SkySilk says it wants to protect Americans' right tofree speech .- SkySilk may disagree with some content on Parler but "cannot allow first amendment rights to be hampered," CEO John Matossian said.
- Parler is the preferred social-media site of the far-right.
$4 with a new web host that says it wants to protect Americans' right to free speech.
Though SkySilk "may disagree" with some of the content posted on Parler, the company believes the
"We cannot allow first amendment rights to be hampered or restricted," he added.
$4 (AWS) in January, and shunned by other tech giants including $4, after $4.
$4, saying the controversial social-media site "poses a very real risk to public safety" and refused to remove content that incited violence.
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In a statement to $4, Matossian criticized $4, saying: "SkySilk does not advocate nor condone hate, rather, it advocates the right to private judgment and rejects the role of being the judge, jury, and executioner.
"Unfortunately, too many of our fellow technology providers seem to differ in their position on this subject," he added, calling their response "aggressive."
"SkySilk truly believes and supports the freedom of speech and more specifically the rights afforded to us in the first amendment," Matossian said.
"This is not a matter of SkySilk endorsing the message, but rather, the right of the messenger to deliver it," he added.
The company would support Parler's efforts to be a nonpartisan public square, he said. He also praised Parler's new $4, which oppose discrimination and say the site shouldn't be used as a tool for crime or civil torts.
Parler also said it would allow users to mute or block other people, or comments containing certain words, and would place click-through filters on some posts.
Though the site would remove content, it would keep this to "the absolute minimum," it said.
"We prefer to leave decisions about what is seen and who is heard to each individual," the site added.
Insider has contacted Parler and SkySilk for comment.
In the run up to the Capitol siege, $4$4$4 because of its lax stance on moderating content. During the $4, users cheered the protestors on or called for more violence.
"No change without Bloodshed!" one user $4, while another called the violence "inevitable."
"The time has come Patriots. This is our time. Time to take back our country. Time to fight for our freedom," $4, a pro-Trump lawyer, wrote on Parler.
Since the attacks, numerous Parler users have been charged in connection with the riot, and in some cases the Department of Justice referred to the threats they had made on Parler, according to Carolyn B. Maloney, chairwoman of $4 The committee has launched an investigation into the site's connections with $4, $4, and the Capitol siege.
Parler's board, headed by conservative megadonor $4 in January. Matze said his ousting was in response to his push for more strict moderation of extremism and violence on the platform.
$4, an attorney, political activist, and founder of the Tea Party Patriots, has replaced Matze as interim CEO.