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During the Super Bowl local TV in LA, Atlanta, and Philly aired seemingly innocent commercial of Ye encouraging people to go to his website yeezy.com. Those that went to it well.... were greeted by shirts with swastikas for sale for $20. Sadly Kanye is completely off his rocker again and I think it is safe to say not taking his bipolar meds.
Shopify was used to power yeezy.com and people who tried to go to the site recently have been greeted with the website being down. While Shopify has not yet released a statement as of me writing this it is HIGHLY likely that they did not want their services for processing order being associated with this and cut off his ability to use them aka banned him. Shopify is a huge and wildly successful business and they cannot have associations like this or people will flock to other online order processers.
While I am all for free speech what Ye has been posting and saying... that isnt speech that is just pure hatred.
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford 11 Feb
IMO Shopify CANNOT violate anyone's freedom of speech. Freedom of association is not discussed enough and it misunderstood. Only the state can violate freedom of speech. This isn't popular with many bitcoiners but its true. Its why we need things like bitcoin and Nostr.
This is censorship though and I am sure Kanye agreed to their terms of service.
While I may disagree with a business or individual's standards they have the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason and I have the right to also refuse to use their service or associate with them.
Kanye, if he is so smart and cares so much could/should use sovereign tech... but he seems to revile in controversy. He seems to like being censored. He seems to try to make points.
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Shopify should and has retained the right to do business with who they please. Just like not forcing bakers to violate their beliefs Shopify has the right to stand for what they want to. Kanye can easily go use someone else like you mentioned. He isnt tied to Shopify he has other options.
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Car 11 Feb
time for ye to get on Shopstr
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time to get in shape
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