Apple, Google and Amazon announced a boycott of Parler, a social network popular among Trump supporters.

Apple, Google and Amazon block the popular social network Parler among Donald Trump supporters.

Alphabet was the first to announce the removal of Parler from Google Play on Friday. Google's parent company explained its decision by the "ongoing and extreme threat to public safety" posed by Parler. Following her, Apple gave the social network 24 hours to moderate dangerous content, but in the end considered that Parler did not cope with the task.

Amazon has calculated that 98 posts inciting violence have been posted on the social network in recent weeks. As of Sunday, Amazon Web Services is set to stop hosting Parler. This means that the social network will be unavailable to customers until it finds a replacement. The head of Parler, John Mace, has already said that the work of the social network could be interrupted for about a week, writes Bloomberg.

With about 10 million users, Parler has become popular with various extremist groups, including supporters of Donald Trump, since there is practically no moderation on the social network. The social network was used, among other things, to organize the recent attack on the Capitol, after which Twitter decided to permanently block Trump's account.

In its App Store profile, Parler describes itself as "an open-minded, free-speech social network focused on protecting user rights." The actions of IT giants, its head John Matze, has already called "a coordinated attack by IT giants aimed at killing competition in this market."

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