Good day all. When I logged into my system this morning, I noticed one of my shortcuts had changed images. Not an uncommon occurrence. However, this was for Parler and the normal shortcut image had been replaced by some sort of notice. It looks like Parlor has been sold and taken offline.
Parler suffered a near mortal blow in 2021 when Amazon Web Services declared them in violation of their Terms of Service and summarily shut them down and locked them out of their site. There was talk of a conspiracy between Amazon and Twitter and I do know court cases were filed. I don’t know what the status of those are.
Parler managed to rebuild themselves, but never regained the user base it had developed. While I did post to it, along with other sites, it’s been Truth Social that has been growing in leaps and bounds, and it appears to have been at the expense of Parler. When I woke up and logged into my system, I noticed the image for Parler had changed significantly. This is what I found when I went to Parler.com:
Alexandria, VA – April 14, 2023 – Starboard (Formerly, Olympic Media) announced today that it has concluded the acquisition of Parler, the world’s pioneering uncancelable free speech platform.
No reasonable person believes that a Twitter clone just for conservatives is a viable business any more. By refocusing on the cloud and IT infrastructure space George Farmer has done an exceptional job at successfully leading Parlement into a critically important industry where it has already begun to excel.
Starboard is the perfect home for the Parler brand and its longtime loyal users. “Parler’s large user base and additional strategic assets represent an enormous opportunity for Starboard to continue to build aggressively in our media and publishing business. The team at Parler has built an exceptional audience and we look forward to integrating that audience across all of our existing platforms.” said Ryan Coyne, CEO of Starboard.
While the Parler app as it is currently constituted will be pulled down from operation to undergo a strategic assessment, we at Starboard see tremendous opportunities across multiple sectors to continue to serve marginalized or even outright censored communities – even extending beyond domestic politics.
I don’t see Parler coming back in it’s original form. I attempted to access my accounts and they are gone. I have removed the link buttons from the sharing tools on the Blog. I’m hoping that Truth Social will eventually become an option, and I am working to find a way to add the primary Social Media platform of the Greatest President of the 21st Century, Donald Trump as an option. Farewell Parler. You did your best, but Big Tech, even with the loss of Twitter, finally beat you down.
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