Every platform cracking down on Trump after the deadly Capitol riots

Made decision "due to its overt connection to an online forum used to incite violence and plan an armed insurrection,” spox says.Not only have sites taken action against Trump and various Trump-related communities in the aftermath of Wednesday’s deadly attack on the US Capitol, but an entire social media platform favored by pro-Trump actors is set to go under for its role as a forum for violence and incitement.Parler, a conservative social media platform that brands itself as a “free speech” alternative to sites like Twitter, was removed from the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store in quick succession this week. Amazon controls the lion’s share of cloud hosting, serving about 40 percent of the internet, according to the Verge, which means it could be difficult for Parler to find alternative hosting — though if it does so before midnight Pacific time, it could remain online.Amazon’s decision, which was first reported on Saturday by BuzzFeed News, comes after the company concluded that Parler was doing little to meaningfully crack down on open calls for violence being spread on the platform, and thus was in violation of the Amazon Web Services’ terms of use.As was the case in communities like TheDonald, users on Parler discussed marching on Washington “in numbers that no standing army or police agency can match” and debated which politicians pro-Trump insurrectionists should kill first.Parler had a large user base as of November 2020, with about 10 million people total.