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More than a week aft Kanye West was restricted from posting connected some his Twitter and Instagram accounts pursuing his arguable statements, the rapper has agreed to acquisition an alternate app.
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Kanye West has his eyes (and wallet) acceptable connected buying a conservative-based societal media app.
In an Oct. 17 statement, Parlement Technologies, the genitor institution of the societal media platform, Parler, confirmed that the rapper agreed to an acquisition that "ensures Parler a aboriginal relation successful creating an uncancelable ecosystem."
According to NBC News, Parler serves arsenic a arguable alternate level to different well-known apps specified arsenic Twitter and Facebook—and was booted offline by aggregate hosting services past twelvemonth for its ties to the January 6, 2021 onslaught connected the U.S. Capitol.
"In a satellite wherever blimpish opinions are considered to beryllium controversial," Kanye said successful an Oct. 27 statement, per NBC News, "we person to marque definite we person the close to freely explicit ourselves."
The platform's CEO, George Farmer—who is hubby to blimpish property and Kanye's person Candace Owens—also spoke retired astir the determination successful his ain statement, saying that the musician's statement "is making a groundbreaking determination into the escaped code media space," adding helium "will ne'er person to fearfulness being removed from societal media again."
Under the presumption of the archetypal agreement, the parties expect to adjacent connected the woody by the extremity of the year, per NBC News.
The company's announcement comes conscionable a small implicit a week aft the 45-year-old was locked retired of his Twitter relationship aft posting an antisemitic tweet connected Oct. 8. In summation to removing the tweet, a spokesperson from Twitter confirmed to CNN connected Oct. 10 that Kanye's relationship was locked for violating the platform's policies.
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Hours earlier posting his tweet, Kanye's Instagram was besides restricted, with Meta, the photo-sharing platform's genitor company, confirming to NBC News that contented from his leafage was deleted for violating institution policies.
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