While Kanye West has been increasing the slippages on social networks lately, motivating restrictions on the part of platforms, he announced on Monday October 17 his intention to buy the Parler network, popular with conservatives and Donald Trump, in order to be able to express without risk of sanctions.
“In a world where conservative views are deemed controversial, we must ensure that we have the right to express ourselves freely“, said the one who now calls himself Ye, in a statement published by Parler. The amount of the transaction, which is expected to close during the fourth quarter of 2022, was not disclosed.
“YI’m taking a revolutionary step into the free speech media space and never have to worry about being taken off social media again.“, affirmed George Farmer, the managing director of Parler.Once again, Ye proves he is one step ahead of the mainstream media narrative.”he added.
Kanye West has found himself in recent days at the heart of several controversies, in particular for having worn during his own parade at Paris fashion week a t-shirt diverting the anti-racist slogan Black Lives Matter in White Lives Matter, used in particular by white supremacists in the United States, and for having published on Instagram and Twitter comments deemed anti-Semitic. His accounts had been restricted after these posts highlighting the supposed influence of the Jewish community.
Just this weekend, Kanye West added another layer, this time about the May 2020 death of George Floyd, which ignited the country and propelled the Black Lives Matter movement. In the podcast Drink Field of NORE and DJ EFN, he felt, as seen in this viral video, that George Floyd had not died of suffocation under the knee of police officer Derek Chauvin but because of his taking Fentanyl (a powerful opioid painkiller). As a reminder, during Derek Chauvin’s trial, it was established that although traces of Fentanyl were found in Floyd’s body, his death was caused by a lack of oxygen due to the knee pressing for long minutes on his neck by the policeman.
Launched in 2018, the Parler social network saw its popularity soar after Donald Trump was permanently ousted from Twitter, shortly after the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, the former American president having then been accused of inciting his supporters to violence. But Apple and Google, deploring the increasing threats of violence and illegal activity on the network, quickly removed it from their download platforms. Amazon Web Services (AWS) had also decided to no longer host Parler on its servers, effectively ostracizing it.
Parler has been accepted again on the App Store since April 2021 and on the Google Play Store since September 2021. The network calls itself a “driving force in the fight against Big Tech, Big Government, censorship and cancel cultureTruth Social, the network launched by Mr. Trump, was again approved by the Google Play Store last week after agreeing to update its policy on the removal of messages inciting violence.