After being blocked by main social media platforms, Ye is shopping for his personal.
On Monday, Parlement Applied sciences introduced that they’d signed a cope with Kanye West for the rapper to purchase the right-wing social media app Parler.
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The app was initially created to “struggle in opposition to Huge Tech, Huge Authorities, censorship and cancel tradition,” and West’s transfer comes after a string of anti-semitic posts and statements led Twitter and Instagram to lock his accounts.
“Ye has grow to be the richest Black man in historical past by means of music and attire and is taking a daring stance in opposition to his current censorship from Huge Tech, utilizing his far-reaching skills to additional lead the struggle to create a really non-cancelable setting,” West and Parlement stated in a joint assertion to Selection.
West added, “In a world the place conservative opinions are thought of to be controversial we now have to ensure we now have the appropriate to freely categorical ourselves.”
Parler was initially based in 2018 as an “uncancellable free speech platform.” In 2021, the app was delisted from Apple and Google’s app shops, and Amazon lower it off from its AWS cloud service, citing incitement of violence within the wake of the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol.
The app reappeared on the app shops a number of months later, after the corporate happy Apple and Google on moderation of hate speech and violent content material.
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Parlement Applied sciences CEO George Farmer stated West’s buy of Parler “will change the world, and alter the way in which the world thinks about free speech. Ye is making a groundbreaking transfer into the free speech media house and can by no means must concern being faraway from social media once more.”
West has been the topic of a lot public outcry in current weeks, first for debuting his “White Lives Matter” shirt at Paris Vogue Week, adopted by a string of anti-semitic statements, together with tweeting that he was going “demise con 3” on Jewish folks.
He doubled down on these sentiments in an unaired interview on “The Store”, and a current look on the “Drink Champs” podcast, in addition to propagating the false declare that George Floyd died due a fentanyl overdose.