Elon Musk suspends Kanye West from Twitter for inciting violence

[Temeret]

Source: BBC

Kanye West has been banned from Twitter again and accused of "inciting violence" over offensive tweets - a month after his account was reinstated.

The US rapper, who now goes by the name Ye, posted a series of erratic tweets - one of which appeared to show a symbol combining a swastika and a Jewish star.

Twitter's new boss Elon Musk was asked by one user to "fix Kanye".

Musk tweeted that West had "violated our rule against incitement to violence".

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63826675

[BigmanPigman]

1. Elon is a hypocritical loser and will somehow justify

allowing him back on Twitter before long.

[Obvious85]

17. Just the fact that he banned Dumbye again days after reinstating him

shows what a hypocrite he is. Elon is not doing this out of any sense of values or right/wrong, it's purely because he is feeling the heat of all his advertisers dumping him. He can't defend Kanye, though I'm sure he would prefer to

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. One high profile ban to distract from opening floodgates for filthy lies & pollution. . nt

[Behind the Aegis]

3. How long before the Jews are blamed?

[oldsoftie]

10. Probably not long; they're blamed for everything ELSE

I'll never understand it. The Jews are probably the ONE group who really don't do anything to anyone. I've never seen Jews insisting on certain laws to be passed because of their beliefs. Or blowing up shopping malls or buses. Or pushing for government to change how they do things to better fit their way of thinking. Or push for special treatment. Etc Etc.

[GB_RN]

4. To Paraphrase Musk Himself...

I guess Elon hates free speech*.

*Musk accused Apple of hating free speech in a tweet after Apple cut back advertising on Twitter and rumors were floating that Apple was getting ready to kill Twitter in its App Store.

[live love laugh]

5. Musk himself is banning people? Incredibly dumb move.

[yonder]

6. Agree. Even if he can't rise above micro-managing those decisions,

he needs to appear to be above doing so and leave that to his "system" or whatever might be left of it.

Incredibly bad optics otherwise. Then again, from the looks of it, he could give a shit. What a mess. Good gawd does he not have any filters?

It's looking more and more as if he is intentionally driving it to the ground

[2naSalit]

7. he is intentionally driving it to the ground...

No "if" about it.

[yonder]

22. 44 billion bucks and untold value invested by the community

who choose, perhaps soon chose, to use it. I'm not sure he can cover his 44b. There's no way he can cover the lost user value if his platform suffers the demise it looks to be headed for.

Does he have a plan through tax write-offs or other mechanisms to recoup his personal lost value? Who knows? I think it would be safe to say that Twitter's user community will be the last to know but the first to suffer if he does succeed in scuttling it.

[yardwork]

14. Musk has been suspending the accounts of reporters for no reason.

That's why I deleted my twitter account earlier this week.

[womanofthehills]

26. Just curious- what reporters accounts were suspended?

Plus there are many types of suspensions. Some some short like 12 hrs - some long.

[Skittles]

8. can someone tell me why Kanye became a white supremacist

I mean, WTF

[groundloop]

18. The same as ALL white supremacists - severe mental illness

[Skittles]

27. I hear you

I feel very sorry for Kanye's children.....

[highplainsdem]

9. I checked Twitter this morning and found a "FAFO" tweet from Musk. No further

explanation there, but after last night's craziness it really wasn't necessary. The free speech absolutists are angry, though. They want to know exactly how Ye was inciting violence.

And there were enough accusations that Musk had suspended Ye for posting an unflattering photo that Musk felt it necessary to tweet this:

Link to tweet

[SouthernDem4ever]

11. So twitter has a limit to hate speech?

Some is ok some is not. Who knew it would become a hate fest - well we actually did didn't we?

[C_U_L8R]

12. The line is whether it embarrasses Musk or not

Quite arbitrary and self-serving. He isn't exactly lifting Twitter to new heights.

[SouthernDem4ever]

13. Very true.

I keep reminding people that complain about twitter policies that it's not a public service - hell it's no longer public company. Musk can be the brat that owns the toy store and not share at will and make the rules as to who can play and who can't. He can be the bull in the china shop he owns. So they can bitch away looking for a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. Best way to handle it is to not use the system.

[rpannier]

15. Knowing Musk, there probably was a twit by ye criticizing Musk

[catbyte]

16. Good. Ye probably insulted him, lol, but Musk has to know that he's skating on thin ice with the EU

as it is and the last thing he needs is for Twitter to be banned there. I wonder how many advertisers are bailing out now?

[NullTuples]

19. Yeah, right AFTER the EU threatened to ban Twitter for hate speech

CEO decisions have consequences, it turns out.

[samsingh]

20. musk never should have reinstated the loser kanye

[keithbvadu2]

21. Kanye... attention whore

[NullTuples]

23. Gotta love how this is being reframed to make Musk look decent.

Funny how he didn't give Ye the boot though, until after this happened:

https://www.marca.com/en/lifestyle/celebrities/2022/12/02/6389974c22601d50358b4596.html

(hint: it was about Elon's ego, not Ye's bigotry)

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

24. Never mind that Trump did the same.

What's the difference I wonder?

[Behind the Aegis]

25. The former Squatter-in-Chief posted the same thing?

He equated Jews to Nazis?

"What's the difference I wonder?" Do you? I wonder why.

[jmowreader]

28. Tell the truth, Elon

You suspended Ye for ridiculing you, didn’t you?

[ck4829]

29. Nah, it was because of the paparazzi pic