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Parler, the self-described “uncancelable free speech platform,” has been offered and shut down whereas its new proprietor conducts a “strategic evaluation.” The platform might be again finally, new proprietor Starboard says.

The Parler web site is now a easy web page containing solely immediately’s press launch asserting the acquisition, which was accomplished with out monetary phrases being disclosed. “No cheap particular person believes {that a} Twitter clone only for conservatives is a viable enterprise any extra,” the acquisition announcement stated, promising a revamp.

“Whereas the Parler app as it’s at present constituted might be pulled down from operation to bear a strategic evaluation, we at Starboard see super alternatives throughout a number of sectors to proceed to serve marginalized and even outright censored communities—even extending past home politics,” the press launch stated. No timing for a return was talked about.