The lawsuit seeking a variety of damages,
including triple damages for anticompetitive conduct, was filed in Washington
state court on Tuesday, two weeks after Parler returned online following a
monthlong absence.
Parler went dark when Amazon suspended its
Web-hosting services following the Capitol attack, saying Parler had failed to
effectively moderate violent content on its website.
The new lawsuit came as Parler voluntarily
dismissed a federal lawsuit against Amazon over that suspension on Tuesday, the
deadline to file an amended complaint.
Parler's new lawsuit accused Amazon of a
slew of contractual violations, and like the original case said Amazon shut it
down to benefit a new client, Twitter.
The app said it was worth $1 billion and
about to seek funding when Seattle-based Amazon pulled the plug, costing it
tens of millions of users and hundreds of millions of dollars of annual
advertisement revenue.
"When companies are this big, it's
easy to be a bully," Parler said, calling itself "a victim of
Amazon's efforts to destroy an up-and-coming technology company through
deceptive, defamatory, anticompetitive, and bad faith conduct."
An Amazon spokesman said the new claims
have no merit, and that it "provides technology and services to customers
across the political spectrum."
Parler has said there was a lack of
evidence it helped incite the Capitol riot, but the judge in the federal case
on January 21 refused to order Amazon to resume services.
The relaunch effectively mooted Parler's
claim that Amazon put it out of business.
Parler has said its new platform was built
on "sustainable, independent technology."
SkySilk, a Los Angeles-based company, said
it was providing private cloud infrastructure.
Google also removed the Parler app from its
Play Store and Apple removed it from its App Store.
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