With seemingly every technology company removing or disabling access to accounts and applications seen as sympathetic to President Trump after the events at the Capitol last week, it was only a matter of time before we saw our first lawsuit.
And that first lawsuit comes courtesy of Parler, the "microblogging" social media app (and self-proclaimed competitor to Twitter), who found itself cut off not just from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, but from the very Internet itself after Amazon (through its Amazon Web Services, or AWS, brand) cut off its access to cloud computing servers.
But do Parler's claims of antitrust violations, breaches of contract, or interference with contractual relationships really hold water?
Let's dive in.
"Step into my Parler", said the multi-national global conglomerate to the fly...in Virtual Legality.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
06:03 The Lawsuit
08:15 The Amazon Letter and Buzzfeed Leak
11:43 The Regulatory Environment
14:30 Comparisons to Twitter
16:59 Antitrust Law
20:02 The Facts (according to Parler)
33:02 Strange Bedfellows
36:15 Parler's Legal Complaints
37:57 Looking at the Contract for Breach Claims
52:40 The Problem with Ambiguous Tort Claims
56:30 Conclusion
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"Virtual Legality" is a continuing series discussing the law, video games, software, and everything digital, hosted by Richard Hoeg, of the Hoeg Law Business Law Firm (Hoeg Law).
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