Parler Fails to Win Quick Reprieve With Lawyer New to Technology

With Parler’s very existence on the line, its lawyer began with a startling admission to a Seattle federal judge that he’s not on social media and has been trying to quickly get up to speed on the technology.

From there, attorney David J. Groesbeck’s mission to rapidly resuscitate the site went downhill, just days after Amazon.com Inc. pulled the plug on its web hosting service over concern that the conservative alternative to Twitter is brimming with violent content.

At the end of a brief hearing Thursday, Groesbeck acquiesced in U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein’s inclination to take a slower ...