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.
view. and they re gonna get this sweeping draft of immunity. this is an outcome that has left a lot of victims of the opioid crisis feeling but you are, feeling as though that s not justice. and beth, you ve written the definitive book about the victims on the frontlines, dope sick, while this deal was hailed as a breakthrough, many, many victims of the opioid crisis found it so unsatisfying, because they have struggled. they ve lost loved ones. there are still struggling because of the epidemic. the sackler family has voiced, quote, regret, but they deny any wrongdoing. beth, they say in a court filing, quote, while the family has enacted wrongfully in all respects, they seem to sincerely regret that oxycontin, prescription medicine, that became part of the opioid crisis that has brought grief and loss to far too many families and communities. cnn, we should note, reached out to the sacklers, and did not get anything. what did you, what is your take on all of this, pat?