Buck cheered the move as a “huge win for free speech” and urged Amazon and Google to take action to reverse the measures they took against Parler. “It’s time for Google and Amazon to follow Apple’s lead. Stop the censorship,” Buck said in a statement. ADVERTISEMENT Lee similarly hailed Apple’s response, tweeting: “Conservative speech must not be silenced.” But Andrew Torba, CEO and founder of fringe social media platform Gab — billed as “The Free Speech Social Network” — wrote a blog post blasting the return to the App Store. “Parler bent the knee and Big Tech has them under their thumb,” Torba wrote.