Ye website down after selling swastika shirts; e-commerce platform says site violated terms
The website run by Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, is offline after selling swastika shirts. Shopify, the ecommerce platform, said the site violated its terms of service.
The website run by Ye, which had been selling shirts featuring a swastika, was offline Tuesday morning after the e-commerce platform it uses said the site had violated its rules.
Shopify said in a statement: "All merchants are responsible for following the rules of our platform. This merchant did not engage in authentic commerce practices and violated our terms so we removed them from Shopify."
The site redirected to a notice that said "this store is not available" Tuesday morning.
Shopify is a widely used e-commerce platform that a variety of websites and businesses use to sell goods. It did not say which of its rules the site had violated, but its terms of service state that it will act "to restrict products or activities that we deem unsafe, inappropriate, or offensive."
Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, used a Super Bowl commercial Sunday night to boost traffic to his website, which over the weekend began selling white T-shirts featuring a black swastika, the symbol of Nazi Germany and a widely recognized symbol of antisemitic hatred.
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