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Ye website down after selling swastika shirts, ecommerce platform says site violated terms

Shopify said in a statement: "This merchant did not engage in authentic commerce practices and violated our terms so we removed them from Shopify.”

The website run by Ye, which had been selling shirts featuring a swastika, was offline Tuesday morning after the ecommerce platform it uses said the site had violated its rules. The company 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." One of the most feted and successful figures in hop-hip, Ye had built up a fashion brand, Yeezy, which began as a collaboration with Adidas — but the German sportswear giant cut ties with him in 2022 over his antisemitic remarks.

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