Parler is offline, but violent posts scraped by hackers will haunt users Nitasha Tiku and Rachel Lerman, The Washington Post Jan. 12, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Rioters who stormed the Capitol last week posted some of their planning on Parler, a social media network that prides itself on free speech. "Better advice ... go armed and ready to shoot," one user posted on the site on Jan. 6, according to screenshots shared on Twitter. Over the weekend, Parler was removed from Apple and Googles app stores. On Monday, Parler disappeared from the internet entirely as Amazon's cloud provider dropped it. All the tech giants cited the site's incitement to violence and lack of content moderation.