Parler is not a useful platform for a Ye. jwherrman writes that amid all the strange and disturbing details, there’s a question of who’s getting taken for a ride in the deal
One can imagine the pitch to Ye for buying Parler: It’s like Twitter, or Facebook, except you can’t be banned and you get to be in charge. Trump did it — why not Ye? One problem is that, even by the low standards of its peers, Parler is aignore him. It’s a place with no adjacency to power, elite discourse, or celebrity. It lacks the raw material with which Ye usually works. It’s an environment where he’ll find neither successtrouble. It’s barely an environment at all.
Parler’s situation is worse than the already grim alt-tech default. For a brief time, it became an off-Twitter hub for “Stop the Steal” election denialism, resulting in a number of its usersto the FBI by posting footage of their visits to the Capitol on January 6. This earned the platform, which was very loosely moderated, bans from the iOS and Android app stores and Amazon’s hosting service.
Conservative alt-tech is, in personnel terms, largely an extension of the MAGA-verse — here, Devin Nunes and Jason Miller are tech CEOs and everyone’s angling for a deal in the form of a SPAC — which means it’s important to ask who, in a given arrangement, might be getting taken for a ride.
Owens, a former Turning Point USA employee and current Daily Wire host, who is Black, is co-founder of Blexit Foundation . Anotheris that she’s married to George Farmer, Parler’s CEO. Farmer, who is quoted in the deal announcement as saying it will “change the world,” adds that Ye “will never have to fear being removed from social media again.
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