Kanye ‘Ye’ West has inked a deal with Parlement Technologies to buy Parler, the extreme right-wing copycat of Twitter that was started to “fight against Big Tech, Big Government, censorship and cancel culture,” reports ‘Variety’.
Parler, innovated in 2018, and banned by both Apple and Google’s play stores after the January 6 Capitol Hill screams in theU.S., has been described as an American alt-tech microblogging and social networking service associated with Donald Trump sympathizers, rightists, conspiracy proponents, and far-right crazies.
Posts on the service generally contain far-right content, anti-Semitic harangues, and conspiracy propositions similar as those floated by QAnon.
West’s move to acquire Parler comes after Twitter and Instagram confined the music artiste and entrepreneur’s accounts before this month because he posted anti-Semitic commentary, according to’ Variety’.
Terms of West’s proposed deal for Parler weren’t bared. In a statement, West and Parlement said” Ye has come the richest Black man in history through music and vesture and is taking a bold station against his recent suppression from Big Tech, using his far-reaching bents to further lead the fight to produce a truly-cancelable terrain.”
” In a world where conservative opinions are considered to be controversial, we’ve to make sure we have the right to freely express ourselves,” West said in a statement, quoted by’ Variety’.
Parlement Technologies CEO George Farmer claimed West’s accession of Parler” will change the world, and change the way the world thinks about free speech. Ye is making a groundbreaking move into the free speech media space and will no way have to sweat being removed from social media again.”
