Thu, Jan 21st 2021 3:51pm
Mike Masnick
As was totally expected, US district court judge, Barbara Jacobs Rothstein, has handily rejected Parler s motion to force Amazon to turn Parler s digital lights back on. The order is pretty short and sweet, basically saying that Parler hasn t even remotely shown a likelihood of success in the case that would lead to having the court order Amazon to take the social media site back.
On the antitrust claims, the judge points out that these appear to be a figment of Parler s imagination:
At this stage in the proceedings, Parler has failed to demonstrate that it is likely to succeed on the merits of its Sherman Act claim. While Parler has not yet had an opportunity to conduct discovery, the evidence it has submitted in support of the claim is both dwindlingly slight, and disputed by AWS. Importantly, Parler has submitted no evidence that AWS and Twitter acted together intentionally or even at all in restraint of trade..