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TechBytes 1/14/21

Posted: Jan 14, 2021 / 07:26 AM EST / Updated: Jan 14, 2021 / 07:26 AM EST

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by MATT O'BRIEN, Associated Press / Jan 21, 2021

Amazon won't be forced to immediately restore web service to Parler after a federal judge ruled Thursday against a plea to reinstate the fast-growing social media app, which is favored by followers of former President Donald Trump.

U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein in Seattle said she wasn't dismissing Parler's “substantive underlying claims” against Amazon, but said it had fallen short in demonstrating the need for an injunction forcing it back online.

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Facebook’s oversight board to rule on Trump ban

by BARBARA ORTUTAY, Associated Press / Jan 21, 2021

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Facebook is passing the buck for its indefinite suspension of former president Donald Trump to a quasi-independent oversight board, setting up a major test of the recently established panel.

The social media giant said Thursday that it believes it made the right decision to suspend Trump after he incited his supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol in a deadly assault on Jan. 6. But it said it's referring the matter to the oversight board for what it called an “independent judgment” on upholding the decision.

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by KATHY GANNON, Associated Press / Jan 21, 2021

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan has ordered a U.S.-based website propagating the faith of Pakistan's minority Ahmadis shut down over allegedly blasphemous content, one of the site's managers said Thursday.

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