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(CNN Business)Parler, the social network favored by conservatives, came back online Monday with a redesigned website one month after it was suspended by Amazon Web Services and effectively driven offline."Speak freely and express yourself openly, without fear of being 'deplatformed' for your views," Parler's homepage read. Content from before Parler vanished no longer seems to be available. In its first post on the platform Monday, Parler's own account welcomed users back and said: "We will not be canceled," followed by an emoji of a flexing bicep.The website's return marks the reopening of the social network after revelations that some of the US Capitol rioters had organized on Parler prompted major tech platforms to cease doing business with the company. The decisions by , and not to work with Parler essentially from the public internet. For the past several weeks, visitors to Parler.com had been greeted by a static placeholder message.Now the full service appears to be back online. In addition to bearing an apparently redesigned logo, the site also links to a new that explains the company "will not knowingly allow itself to be used as a tool for crime, civil torts, or other unlawful acts."Read MoreThe community guidelines still maintain that the platform will try to remove content as little as possible, showing how the company is attempting to balance its pitch to users as a haven for unrestricted speech with the scrutiny it's faced for its role in enabling violent extremists to organize. "In no case will Parler decide what [content will] be removed or filtered, or whose account will be removed, on the basis of the opinion expressed within the content at issue," according to the community guidelines.The document adds that Parler expects users to curate their own feeds by using platform-provided tools such as muting or blocking users and keywords. Since it was removed from Amazon Web Services' hosting platform, questions have arisen over where Parler might turn for its infrastructure support, including domain hosting and web security. CNN that the company had hired DDoS-guard, a Russia-based cloud-services provider. That decision raised eyebrows and the chairwoman of the House Oversight Committee to seek documents from Parler about its ties to DDoS-guard. Now, in its latest incarnation, Parler directs traffic to an IP address linked to a California-based cloud services provider called SkySilk. Parler didn't respond to a request for comment. In a statement to CNN Business, SkySilk said it believes Parler is "taking the necessary steps to better monitor its platform.""Skysilk does not advocate nor condone hate, rather, it advocates the right to private judgment and rejects the role of being the judge, jury, and executioner," the company said. "Unfortunately, too many of our fellow technology providers seem to differ in their position on this subject. ... SkySilk will support Parler in their efforts to be a nonpartisan Public Square."

(CNN Business)Parler, the social network favored by conservatives, came back online Monday with a redesigned website one month after it was suspended by Amazon Web Services and effectively driven offline."Speak freely and express yourself openly, without fear of being 'deplatformed' for your views," Parler's homepage read. Content from before Parler vanished no longer seems to be available. In its first post on the platform Monday, Parler's own account welcomed users back and said: "We will not be canceled," followed by an emoji of a flexing bicep.The website's return marks the reopening of...

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Brian Fung is a technology reporter who covers the intersection of business and policy. A native of Washington, D.C., Brian spent almost six years at The Washington Post, where he wrote extensively about the media industry's struggle to adapt to the Internet; the battle over net neutrality; and the rise of novel innovations such as self-driving cars. Prior to The Post, Brian served numerous roles at Atlantic Media, where he was the technology correspondent at National Journal and an associate editor at The Atlantic.

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