Parler Is Back: CEO Says Trump, Biden Welcome on the Platform
A general view of the Parler app displayed on an iPhone on January 9, 2021 in London, England. The Parler App popular with right-wing supporters has been suspended from Google's Play store over continued postings by users that incite violence. US President Donald Trump was suspended indefinitely from Twitter after tweets he made encouraged his supporters to break into the Capitol building and five people died in the ensuing violence. Photo by Hollie Adams/Getty Images

Parler is welcoming both former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden on the social media platform. According to a Fox Business report, Parler Interim CEO Mark Meckler said they would love to have the former president on their site.

"But to be honest with you, we'd love to have the current president. We'd love to see Joe Biden on the site as well," Meckler said in the report.

Mark Meckler added that the alternative social media platform is open to all political views.

"We welcome everybody," he said. Parler is currently back online for current users using a new web hosting service after being offline for more than a month.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has suspended Parler for failure to moderate "egregious" content associated with the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. It took the site offline. Apple and Google also suspended Parler from its app stores.

Parler's Comeback

Parler users can now access their accounts. However, when they do, they would find that all their old posts and contents have been removed.

It is unclear whether this was a consequence of the hurried exit from AWS last month. In a statement, Parler said it is now using "sustainable, independent technology and not reliant on so-called 'Big Tech' for its operations."

According to a Tech Crunch report, its new host is SkySilk, which seems a reseller of OVHcloud. In a separate statement, SkySilk noted that it is hosting Parler due to its position on free speech.

However, the hosting service said they do not advocate nor condone hate. Instead, it supports the right to private judgment and "rejects the role of being the judge, jury, and executioner."

"SkySilk truly believes and supports the freedom of speech and more specifically the rights afforded to us in the First Amendment," SkySilk said in the statement.

Parler reportedly plans to enforce its terms, which generally but not specifically prohibit things related to threats of violence.

Despite being back online, Parler is still barred from entering the Google Play Store and App Store, which could hugely affect them as mobile users make up a large part of social networks.

Mark Meckler said the company has ongoing "positive" conversations with Apple, and they expect Parler to be back on the App Store "pretty shortly." However, he said it's the opposite on Google Play Store's case as he believed it's a "free speech denier."

Parler vs. Amazon

Parler stated in its lawsuit seeking to force Amazon to restore its service that Amazon aimed to deny Trump a platform on any large social media service. That followed Twitter's decision to permanently ban Trump from its service and the same indefinite bans by Facebook and Instagram, according to an Associated Press report.

Trump has not yet established an account on Parler. However, there were reports that he considered buying a stake in Parler while he was in office.

Parler is a two-and-a-half-year social media platform with more than 20 million users.