the artist formerly known as kanye west, who today announced he is going to purchase parlor. do you know what por lor is? the word might invoke the image of a fancy room or cute little lady sit and sip their tea from good china. but parlor is decidedly not that. parlor is a far right fringe social media platform. and you first might have heard of it around the time of the capitol insurrection, january 6, 2021, because many of the violent rioters organized on parlor. podcast host kara swisher that very day asked one of the founders of parlor if he felt any responsibility for death and destruction to which he said this. i don t feel responsible for any of this, and neither should the platform, considering we re a neutral town square that just add head heres to the law. so, if people are organizing something, that s more of a problem of people are upset. they feel disenfranchised. yes, people were upset and they felt disenfranchised. not long after that interview, apple and
the most recent of whom is he a, the artist formerly known as kanye west, who today announced he was going to purchase parlor. do you know what parlor is the word might invoked the image of a fancy room or a cute little lady sitting in sitting there too from china. but parler is decidedly not that. parler it s a far right fringe, social media platform. and you first might have heard of it around the time of the capital insurrection, january 6th, 2021, because many of the violent rioters, organized on parlor. the podcaster, swisher, that very day ask one of the founders of parler if he felt any responsibility for the death and destruction to which he said this i don t feel responsible for any of this, and neither should the platform considering we are a neutral town square. and it just adheres to the laws. so, if people are organizing something, that s more of a problem of people are upset. they feel disenfranchised. yes, people were upset, and they felt disenfranchised.
try to get in on the rescue, offering him a mature summary, which unsworth called a pr stunt. and musk, he did not like that. he called that gave diver a, quote, beto guy. which unsworth and pretty much everyone else took to mean, pedophile. a hideous charts that musk doubled down on and tripled down on, and unsworth took musk to court for defamation. it s a case that unsworth lost. vernon went toe to toe with a billionaire bully, and not many people have the courage to do that. so, that was a quote ruled, legally protected speech by elon musk. but that does not make it right, which is the area in which we find ourselves in this debate. none of musk s bizarre and offensive tweets have met the bar for removal from twitter.
at the time, elon musk tried to get on the rescue, offering a miniature summary, which unsworth called a pr stunt. and musk, he didn t like that. he called the cave diver a, quote, pedo guy, which unsworth and pretty much everyone else took to mean pedophile. a hideous charge that musk doubled down on and tripled down on. and unsworth took musk to case for defamation. it s a case unsworth lost. he went toe-to-toe with a billionaire bully. not many people have the courage to do that. so, that was a court ruled, legally protected speech by elon musk. but that does not make it right dh , which is the area in which we find ourselves in this debate. none of musk s bizarre tweets have met the bar for removal