Amazon pulled support for Parler, which was hosted on Amazon Web Services, and the free-speech social network is now offline. This comes only days after Apple and Google both announced they were kicking the Parler app off of their platforms.

Free speech is not free and tech conglomerates now control the narrative. This comes as a lesson to never host a site in North America, and to certainly never hand control of your site to one of the big tech giants.

We wait to see what the Parler team does next, whether transition their site to an offshore host or simply admit defeat.