Brian Philips, executive vice president for Cumulus, made the official announcement that Draconian censorship would be instituted in the response to the display.
President Donald Trump has been kicked off of leftist Big Tech’s social media platforms following last week’s intrusion on the U.S. Capitol that companies like Facebook and Twitter have blamed on him.
But it remains to be seen how fast or where — if anywhere — on the internet he will be able to reach his followers.
Twitter-lookalike (function-wise) Parler had been the leading candidate, at least until Google and Apple removed it from their app stores and Amazon booted it off its web hosting service just after midnight Pacific time early Monday.
Parler’s CEO said that could knock it offline for a week, though that might prove optimistic.
And even if it finds a friendlier web-hosting service, without a smartphone app, it’s hard to imagine Parler gaining mainstream success.
The 2-year-old company claims more than 12 million users, though mobile app analytics firm Sensor Tower puts the number at 10 million worldwide, with 8 million in the U.S. That’s a fraction of the 89 million followers Trump had on Twitter.
Still, Parler might be attractive to Trump since it’s where his sons Eric and Don Jr. are already active.
Parler hit headwinds, though, on Friday as Google yanked its smartphone app from its app store for allegedly allowing postings that seek “to incite ongoing violence in the U.S.”
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