“It’s clear that Parler does not have an effective process to comply with the AWS terms of service,” an AWS Trust and Safety team wrote. While Parler was seen as a small, but growing rival to sites like Twitter, an email from Amazon Web Services obtained by BuzzFeed claims Parler was deplatformed for more prosaic reasons - that it has seen “a steady increase in this violent content,” which violates Amazon’s terms of use. ![]() “You can expect the war on competition and free speech to continue, but don’t count us out.” “This was a coordinated attack by the tech giants to kill competition in the market place,” Matze wrote. Parler’s CEO confirms and says Parler could be off of the internet for up to a week: /mrs7bIjMjS- Brian Fung January 10, 2021 To the American people on the ground in DC today and all over this great nation, be prepared for anything.” “To all our enemies high and low you want a war? Well your asking for one. “WE THE PEOPLE … are through with you,” one Parler post said ahead of Wednesday’s violence, according to the Washington Post. It’s a sudden downfall for the app, which has been under fierce scrutiny for its role in providing a forum to the extremists who stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday, leaving at least five people dead.Īhead of the attack, Trump supporters used Parler - as well as services like Gab and the online forum TheDonald.win, a Reddit-like spinoff built upon a community previously banned from the main Reddit site - to plan their assault. Many conservatives aggrieved with those platforms have fled to Parler in recent months. The push to take action against Parler follows decisions this week by Twitter and Facebook to ban President Donald Trump from their platforms for inciting violence - and thus deprives the president of what could have been an alternative to those services. The app could use a little polishing up on the Windows 10 Mobile side, but all in all, it's a nifty app to have around when audible playback fits your needs better than reading.Parler - the conservative social media platform that brands itself as a “free speech” alternative to sites like Twitter - was kicked off of its Amazon web-hosting service after midnight Sunday, ending for now a site that has become a nexus of extremism.Īmazon’s decision, which was first reported by BuzzFeed News on Saturday, comes after the Apple App Store and Google Play Store decided to remove Parler from their respective app stores this week, limiting its potential reach. Speech Central: Text to Speech and MP3 currently costs $6.99. The Mobile version isn't a wash, it just requires a little patience. ![]() For example, the navigation menu should appear throughout the Windows 10 Mobile version to make bouncing around the app easier. The Windows 10 Mobile version needs a little work with the layout to make it more user-friendly. ![]() The Windows 10 PC version of Speech Central works like a charm and is easy to pick up and use. I also found that Speech Central has trouble dealing with converting double column documents, such as newspaper articles, when photographed. It's a neat feature, but the material needs to be laid flat to improve the conversion accuracy. The only trouble I experienced was in adding documents for conversion by using the camera. Converting the written document did take a few seconds but not painfully long. For the most part, the audio conversion is spot on. ![]() I like the Now Speaking feature, which lets you create a playlist of articles to listen to on road trips or when you need a break from jamming to Groove Music. Overall, Speech Central: Text to Speech and MP3 is a feature-rich, capable Windows 10 app for listening to written material.
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