Kanye buys social media platform Parler

[thewayne]

He was recently temporarily banned from Twitter and Instagram for making an anti-Semitic post about going "Death Con 3" on Jews. Now he owns his own social media platform and can't be suspended again.

Yay Ye?

One comment said 'he can't be cancelled, but he can still be ignored.'

Interesting note from the RS story headline: Parlement Technologies CEO George Farmer just happens to be the husband of one of West's best conservative pals, Candace Owens.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/17/kanye-west-to-acquire-uncancelable-social-media-platform-parler/

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/kanye-west-buying-right-wing-free-speech-app-parler-1234612244/


Amusingly, apparently sources close to Trump say that he thinks Kanye needs help based on his Tucker Carlson Show appearance in which allegedly a ton of anti-Semitic material was left on the cutting room floor.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/donald-trump-kanye-west-reaction-antisemitism-tucker-carlson-1234611989/

Comments

[silveradept]

It does seem like one of the constants of the right wing social media ecosystem is that someone is being more active in the grift, rather than at least trying to hide it behind something legitimate.

Also, I thought Parler's claim to popularity was that it was going to be the place for Trump-in-Twitter-exile. Other than that, sure, you might not be cancelable if you own the platform, but if you're primarily concerned about not getting cancelled, you have bigger issues to worry about.