{"id":100541,"date":"2022-10-18T10:41:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T10:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/kanye-west-to-buy-conservative-social-media-platform-parler\/"},"modified":"2022-10-18T10:41:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T10:41:59","slug":"kanye-west-to-buy-conservative-social-media-platform-parler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/kanye-west-to-buy-conservative-social-media-platform-parler\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West to buy conservative social media platform Parler"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The rapper formerly known as Kanye West is offering to buy right-wing friendly social network Parler shortly after getting locked out of Twitter and Instagram for antisemitic posts. <\/p>\n

The acquisition of Parler would give West, legally known as Ye, control of a social media platform and a new outlet for his opinions with no gatekeeper. The question is, who will listen? <\/p>\n

Even among the new breed of largely right-wing, far-right and libertarian social apps that purport to support free speech by having looser rules and moderation, Parler’s user base is tiny \u2014 and with competition only increasing for the relatively small swath of mostly older people who want to discuss politics online, there is no clear roadmap to growing it beyond a niche platform chasing crumbs left by mainstream social media. <\/p>\n

If Tesla CEO Elon Musk goes through with his planned purchase of Twitter, things may get even more complicated for Parler. That’s because Musk has already made it clear he would like to loosen Twitter’s rules and content-moderation efforts, including reinstating the account of former President Donald Trump. If the libertarian and far-right users who left Twitter \u2014 either because they felt it was constricting to their political views or because they were kicked off \u2014 return, sites like Parler, Gab and Trump’s Truth Social could end up losing users. <\/p>\n

Parlement Technologies, which owns Parler, and West said Monday the acquisition should be completed in the fourth quarter, but the price and other details were not disclosed. Parlement Technologies said the agreement includes the use of private cloud services via Parlement’s private cloud and data center infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Parler restructured its business last month to form Parlement Technologies, which it said aims to become the \u201cworld’s premier free speech technology infrastructure and platform.\u201d This means that rather than running a single platform such as Parler, the company wants to provide services to other niche sites that are often deemed too extreme for mainstream tech companies to support. A Parliament spokesperson said the deal with West was not yet in the works when the company was restructured and the two transactions are separate. <\/p>\n

Ye was blocked from posting on Twitter and Instagram a week ago over antisemitic posts that the social networks said violated their policies. In one post on Twitter, Ye said he would soon go \u201cdeath con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE,\u201d according to internet archive records, making an apparent reference to the US defense readiness condition scale known as DEFCON.<\/p>\n

Ye has also suggested slavery was a choice and called the COVID-19 vaccine the \u201cmark of the beast.\u201d Earlier this month, he was complaining for wearing a \u201cWhite Live Matter\u201d T-shirt to his collection at Paris Fashion Week.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a world where conservative opinions are considered to be controversial we have to make sure we have the right to freely express ourselves,\u201d Ye said in a prepared statement.<\/p>\n

parler has struggled amid competition from other conservative-friendly platforms like Truth Social, which are tiny as well compared with mainstream social media sites. Parler had an average of 725,000 monthly active users in the US for the first half of this year, according to Data.ai, which tracks mobile app usage. That’s down from 5.2 million in the first half of 2021. Overall, including people outside the US, Parler still failed to reach the 1 million mark in the first half of this year. <\/p>\n

Truth Social, meanwhile, had 2.4 million monthly users during the same period, despite launching just in February and only on Apple devices, according to Data.ai. The market research firm said another right-leaning platform, Gettr, which launched in July 2021, is ahead of both Parler and Truth Social with about 3.8 million monthly active users. <\/p>\n

None of them come close to Twitter, which reported that it had a daily average of about 237.8 million active users during its most recent quarter. Many of the right-wing platforms emerged from they opposition to the content-moderation restrictions at mainstream services such as Twitter and Facebook, but have failed to attract users in large numbers. <\/p>\n

Part of that reason may be that most people don’t actually want to discuss politics online. According to the Pew Research Center, one-third of tweets sent in the US are political in nature, but these are mainly sent my a small subset of mostly older people. While Americans ages 50 and older make up 24% of the US adult Twitter population, they produce nearly 80% of all political tweets, according to Pew. This is the audience Ye’s Parler would have to be courting if the rapper is serious about growing Parler’s user base. <\/p>\n

Parler launched in August 2018 but it didn’t start picking up steam until 2020. It was kicked offline in January 2021 over its ties to the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol earlier that month. A month after the attack, Parler announced a relaunch. It returned to Google Play last month.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis deal will change the world, and change the way the world thinks about free speech,\u201d Parlement Technologies CEO George Farmer, who is married to conservative Candace Owens, said in a prepared statement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The rapper formerly known as Kanye West is offering to buy right-wing friendly social network Parler shortly after getting locked out of Twitter and Instagram for antisemitic posts. The acquisition of Parler would give West, legally known as Ye, control of a social media platform and a new outlet for his opinions with no gatekeeper. …<\/p>\n

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