Shopify on Tuesday defeated the website from Rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West.
With a history of spitting anti-Semitic hate speech, YE ran a Super Bowl commercial touting Yeezy.com, which sold white t-shirts with a bold black Nazi symbol.
The Shopify site remained open to display error messages until Tuesday morning. “This store is not available.”
Shopify's president, Harley Finkelstein, told CNBC that the website owner “had a whole day” to prove that he was not violating the company's policies.
“The moment we realised that this wasn't really a real commercial practice, they weren't actually engaged in real commercial business, so we pulled it down,” Finkelstein said Tuesday.
Finkelstein labeled the “Heil Hitler” code, labeled “HH-01” on his shirt as “disappointment.”
“I'm a proud Jewish entrepreneur,” Finkelstein told CNBC's Sarah Eisen. “I'm a proud member of the Jewish community. You and I have talked about this in the past, which is a big part of my identity. So obviously I'm devastated by it.”
Shopify did not respond immediately to requests for comment.
The rapper was also dropped on Tuesday by his music booking agents, 33 and Daniel McCartney of the West.
“Immediately effective, I am no longer representing Ye (f/k/a kanye West) because of his harmful and hateful remarks that 33&West supports,” McCartney said. I wrote about Instagram stories.
For Super Bowl ads, you film yourself in the dentist's chair and tell viewers to visit Yeezy.com before instructing them to visit Yeezy.com I spent it on.”
You wrote about X's disgusting t-shirt before his account was deactivated on Monday.
“I wanted to make this tee shirt for years,” he wrote to X before his account was deleted. “My biggest performance artwork ever.”
Everyone in the rapper's inner circle, including his wife Bianca Sensori, who drew a nude stunt on the Grammys red carpet, tried to stop him from selling his shirt, West's best friend previously told the Post .
During the inconsistent stream of several days of anti-Semitistic speech in X, you called yourself a Nazi and declared your love for Hitler.
“Hitler was so refreshing,” the rapper wrote to X.
“I'm a Nazi,” he added. “I love Hitler.”
“As if further evidence of Kanye's anti-Semitism was needed, he chose to put a single item for sale on his website – a t-shirt decorated with Swastika,” and the Prevention League It was stated in a statement.
In 2022, you were banned from X after you posted a photo of the sw where X merged with the Star of David. His account returned a few months later.
That same year, Gap and Adidas cut connections between the rapper and Yeezy clothing designer.
X's owner Elon Musk has sparked his own controversy to amplify anti-Semitic posts on the platform since purchasing it in 2022.
Tesla and SpaceX founders have faced backlash recently after making gestures at Trump's inauguration rally, which many critics likened to a Nazi salute.
