Kanye West won’t observe in Elon Musk’s footsteps and purchase his personal social media platform, with Parler confirming at this time that it has ended negotiations with West on a doable sale of the app.

The reasoning behind the choice will not be clear, however West has continued to share his controversial opinions in numerous media alternatives of late, which has resulted in him dropping a variety of sponsor and partnership offers, and has decimated his internet price.

Axios has reported that West’s monetary state of affairs, because of these impacts, has performed no less than some position within the dissolution of the Parler deal.

West initially introduced his intention to amass Parler again in October, saying on the time that he wanted to purchase his personal platform as a way to share his unfiltered opinions with the world.

“Individuals had talked about it and talked about this concept for years, however sufficient was sufficient.”

Within the weeks main as much as that announcement, West had been suspended from each Instagram and Twitter after intentionally pushing his limits on each by sharing offensive, anti-Semitic remarks. That then led West to Parler, and with Elon Musk transferring to take over at Twitter, West noticed a chance to additionally play a component in what he noticed as a broader shift in the direction of permitting extra free and open speech.

However now, West is transferring on – although he’ll proceed together with his 2024 Presidential run, apparently.

West has additionally seemingly pinned his hopes on Musk for a future reformation of social media moderation guidelines.

Not less than, I believe that’s what this implies.

The announcement leaves Parler in a lower than sure predicament, because it continues its efforts to develop a extra sustainable enterprise mannequin as a way to preserve operation as a free speech platform.

Within the wake of the Capitol Riots, Parler was nearly killed off completely when each Apple and Google eliminated the app from their respective shops due its lax moderation insurance policies, which they stated had allowed too many posts that inspired violence and crime. Amazon then additionally refused to host Parler on its web-hosting service attributable to repeated violations of its guidelines.

Parler was finally in a position to save itself by rolling out further moderation guidelines, in alignment with the necessities of every platform, which subsequently brought about a stage of angst amongst its core person base. Parler has since been discovered to be censoring sure posts, and eradicating sure customers, which has prompted additional criticism of the app, and with Elon taking on at Twitter, and promising a extra open strategy to what will be shared through tweet, it looks as if Parler’s days might certainly be numbered, particularly if Musk is ready to implement a big change in Twitter’s strategy.

Which may also be difficult. Simply as Parler needed to change its moderation strategy in keeping with app retailer insurance policies, Twitter may also have to take care of its processes on the identical, which might impede Musk’s push to allow extra free and open speech within the app.

Elon’s seeking to problem this, however once more, there’ll at all times be a stage of moderation required, which is able to seemingly at all times exceed what free speech advocates would like, given evolving guidelines in Europe and different areas.

And for Kanye, it looks as if his ambitions for proudly owning his personal social platform are actually shelved, no less than in the meanwhile.