Shopify shot the Kanye West online store after the musician sold t-shirts with the symbol of the swastika.
West, which also goes through Ye, announced its online store in an advertisement of the Super Bowl on Sunday, directoring viewers to its website, where the only listed article was the Swastika T-shirt.
Although Shopify has removed a policy prohibiting sellers from hosting “hateful contentsLast year, the electronic commerce giant abolished Ye’s store on Tuesday, a few days after the Super Bowl’s announcement. Shopify would have closed the window due to the potential of fraud, not because it sold a Nazi t-shirt, according to An internal memo seen by logic, a Canadian technological publication.
“All merchants are responsible for following the rules of our platform. This merchant did not engage in authentic trade practices and violated our conditions, so we removed them from Shopify, “the company told Techcrunch in a press release.
During last week, you did Several anti -Semitic messages on x, proudly proclaimant That he is Nazi and that “does not like or trusts a Jewish person”. He congratulated Adolf Hitler, SO wrote“I appreciate Elon for allowing me to let off steam” before his account was deleted.
Techcrunch asked X if you delete the account itself or if it had been deleted by the platform; X did not comment.
However, X established the previous one that the denial of the holocaust, the praise of Hitler and the support of the Nazis are authorized on the platform. Techcrunch has found an example of X creator with 200,000 subscribers who uses Shopify to sell products glorifying the death camps of Auschwitz and marrying the denial of the holocaust.
While Shopify has removed the Ye swastoded cross merchant, the other anti-Semitic boutique remains on the platform; Shopify did not return the request for TechCrunch comments to the reasons why this shop was authorized to stay.
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