Ye was blocked from posting on Twitter and Instagram a week ago over antisemitic posts that the social networks said violated their policies.Credit:AP
But even among the new breed of largely right-wing social apps that purport to support free speech by having looser rules and moderation,Parler’s user base is tiny.
Parlement Technologies,which owns the platform,and West said the acquisition should be completed in the fourth quarter,but details like price were not disclosed. Parlement Technologies said the agreement includes the use of private cloud services via Parlement’s private cloud and data centre infrastructure.
Ye was blocked from posting on Twitter and Instagram a week ago over anti-Semitic posts that the social networks said violated their policies. In one post on Twitter,Ye said he would soon go “death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE,” according to internet archive records,making an apparent reference to the US defence readiness condition scale known as DEFCON.
Ye is no stranger to controversy,once suggesting slavery was a choice and calling the COVID-19 vaccine “the mark of the beast.” Earlier this month,he was criticised for wearing a “White Lives Matter” T-shirt to his collection at Paris Fashion Week.
“In a world where conservative opinions are considered to be controversial we have to make sure we have the right to freely express ourselves,” Ye said in a prepared statement.
Parlement Technologies,which owns the platform,and West said the acquisition should be completed in the fourth quarter,but details like price were not disclosed.Credit:AP
The acquisition could also breathe new life into Parler,which has struggled amid competition from other conservative-friendly platforms like Truth Social,started by former President Donald Trump. Parler had a relatively tiny average of 983,000 monthly active users for the first half of this year,according to Data.ai,which tracks mobile app usage.