Conservative Twitter clone Parler shuts down, at least temporarily

[thewayne]

Parler sprang into being not long after trump was banned from Twitter and Facebook and was later de-platformed by Amazon for not moderating their content. They shortly found hosting and came back pretty popular with the conservative crowd.

At least for a while.

Now there's lots of conservative social media, including trump's "Truth" Social and now Twitter, which has reinstated trump, though he hasn't posted anything there probably has an exclusive deal with Truth Social for now.

Parler, at one point, was going to sell a big chunk of itself to Kanye 'Ye' West, but then he went on a Nazi tirade and Parler cancelled the deal.

Times got hard, layoffs happened and only a small core remains. And that has been sold, for an undisclosed amount, to an outfit called (from the article) "Starboard, formerly called Olympic Media, owns conservative news sites American Wire News and BizPac Review."

And Starboard has shut down Parler pending a review of the business. They claim that Parler will be integrated with the rest of their holdings, we shall see how that works out.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/parler-shuts-down-as-new-owner-says-conservative-platform-needs-big-revamp/

Comments

[dewline]

Partial victory? Maybe?

[disneydream06]

I was going to say, why would you buy something just to shut it down, but then I thought, they must have needed a tax write off. LOL...........
Hugs, Jon

[silveradept]

Good that Parler is off-line. That said, the idea of "we can integrate these people into our other products" suggests that there's already another Parler that exists in that company, and we're going to start hearing about it when they get all the Parler folks onto it. Or, what might be more likely, is that all the Parler user base is going to depart for Truth Social, because that's currently the place where they can get their preferred environment as well as direct contact with the messianic figure they so clearly want to fawn over.