Shopify took off Kanye West online shop after the musician sold T-shirts with the swastika symbol.
West, which also comes by, announced on Sunday in a Super Bowl commercial for his online shop and guided the audience to his website, where the swastika t-shirt was the only article listed.
Although Shopify has removed a policy that sells sellers from hosting “Hasser -filled contentLast year, the e-commerce giant removed Ye’s business on Tuesday, days after the Super Bowl display was appeared. Shopify has reported the shop front due to fraud potential and not because it sold a Nazi t-shirt An internal memo of logic, a Canadian Tech publication.
“All dealers are responsible for following the rules of our platform. This dealer has not committed to authentic trading practices and violated our conditions so that we have removed it from Shopify, ”the company told Techcrunch in a statement.
In the past week she made her Several anti -Semitic contributions On x, proud proclaim that he is a Nazi and does not “like or trusted” a Jewish person. He praised Adolf Hitler, Then wrote“I appreciate Elon for having allowed it to be vented” before his account was deleted.
Techcrunch asked X if she deleted the account herself or whether it was deleted by the platform. X did not comment.
X, however, has determined the precedent that the Holocaust refusal, the praise of Hitler and the support of Nazis are permitted on the platform. Techcrunch found an example of an X creator with 200,000 supporters who use Shopify to sell products to glorify the Auschwitz death warehouse and to represent the Holocaust -Denialism.
While Shopify has removed the Merch swastika from Ye, the other anti -Semitic business remains on the platform. Shopify did not return Techcrunch’s request why this shop was allowed to stay.
Additional reporting from Maxwell Zeff.
