Changing his name to Ye in the legal system, Kanye West may launch his own social media firm in the near future. Parler’s parent firm, Parlement Technologies, said on Monday that Ye had agreed to acquire the conservative social media platform.
The parties have reached a preliminary agreement and have stated their desire to finalize the transaction before the end of the year. No monetary details were provided.
This contract, if it goes through, might allow Ye the freedom to establish his own standards for social media.
Ye has been temporarily banned from many major social networking networks due to his political beliefs. After he sent out an antisemitic remark earlier this month, Twitter terminated his account. NBC also verified that his Instagram account has been disabled, however it is unclear what content may have prompted Instagram’s parent company, Meta, to take this measure. Ye reportedly shared images of a discussion he had with rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs to Instagram as “an example to the Jewish people” before he was banned.
The latest controversy involving the artist and fashion entrepreneur began when he donned a “White Lives Matter” shirt to his Yeezy design presentation earlier this month. The rapper’s long-standing collaboration with the sportswear firm Adidas is “under review” after the Anti-Defamation League labeled “White Lives Matter” as a white supremacist statement.
“We have to make sure we have the freedom to openly express ourselves in a society where conservative viewpoints are thought to be controversial,” Ye stated the release.
In 2018, the social messaging app Parler emerged as a viable substitute for Twitter. Since the riots on January 6, it has become a social media center where members openly talk firearms and violence in defense of Donald Trump’s shaky victory claims.
Shortly after January 6th, Amazon Web Services severed connections with the firm, taking the website down temporarily. Both the Google Play and Apple App Stores have the app no longer available. In February 2021, the firm reopened with a new web host, and in May 2021, it was back in Apple’s App Store and in the Play Store on Google’s platform.
Upon acquiring Parler, Ye “never needs to worry getting deleted from social media again,” according to Parlement CEO George Farmer’s press announcement.
A message left for Parler with no quick response.
