Although supposedly aimed at curtailing online abuse, critics have said that Britain's Online Safety Bill would increase censorship of expression while failing to tackle the heart of internet-based abuses.
'These social media platforms control the modern-day public square, but they abusively suppress speech in that square,' Texas assistant solicitor general Ryan Baasch argued.
Apple, Google, and Amazon blacklisted Parler in January, with Amazon forcing the entire site to go down until it managed to arrange an alternative web-hosting solution to replace Amazon Web Services.