Shopify took the online store from Kanye West after the musician had sold T-shirts with the Swastika symbol.
West, who also passes, advertised his online store in a super bowl commercial on Sunday and led viewers to his website, where the only mentioned item was the Swastika T-shirt.
Although Shopify has removed a policy that prohibits sellers from hosting “Hateful contentLast year the e-commerce giant removed the YE store on Tuesday, days after the Super Bowl advertisement appeared. Shopify is said to have closed the store because of the potential for fraud, and not because it sold according to a Nazi-T-shirt, according to An internal memo seen through logic, a Canadian technical publication.
“All sellers are responsible for following the rules of our platform. This trader did not enter into an authentic trade methods and violated our conditions, so that we have removed them from Shopify, ”the company told Techcrunch in a statement.
In the past week you have been made Different anti -Semitic messages On X, proud proclaiming That he is a Nazi and does not “love or trusts a Jewish person”. He praised Adolf Hitler, Than written“I appreciate Elon that I have been airing” before his account was deleted.
Techcrunch asked X if you deleted the account yourself or whether it was deleted by the platform; X did not comment.
However, X has determined the precedent that Holocaust -denial, praise from Hitler and support from Nazis on the platform are permitted. Techcrunch found an example of an X -maker with 200,000 followers who use Shopify to sell products that glorify Auschwitz’s death camps and embrace Holocaust.
While Shopify Ye’s Swastika Merch removed, the other anti -Semitic store remains on the platform; Shopify has the request from Techcrunch not to return comments about why that store is allowed to remain.
Additional reporting from Maxwell Zeff.