Jared Thomson

Jared Thomson is a co-founder of Parler.

Parler and Amazon Web Services

The best-documented episode in the company’s history is its removal from its host. On 11 January 2021 — days after the attack on the United States Capitol — Parler LLC filed an antitrust action against Amazon Web Services in the Western District of Washington. The case was assigned to Judge Barbara Jacobs Rothstein and ended on 27 September 2021, when Parler voluntarily dismissed it.

The shape of that record is what matters here: a platform that lost its infrastructure sued the infrastructure provider on antitrust grounds and then withdrew the suit without a judgment. It is the clearest available case of where control over a social platform actually sits, and of how little recourse a platform has when a hosting provider withdraws.

What Is Not Established Here

This page was previously a stub. Thomson’s own role at the company, his dates, and his other work are not stated, because nothing sourced in this pass documents them: the docket establishes the company’s litigation, not the identity or tenure of its founders. His co-founding of Parler is retained from the previous version and is not corroborated by anything cited here. The previous version’s statements that Parler “launched in 2018” and “faced controversy surrounding its role in events leading to the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot” have been removed as unsourced; the litigation date is what the record supports.