Kanye West's Yeezy online shopping platform taken down over swastika T-shirts

Kanye West's Yeezy online buying level has been taken down aft it featured T-shifts featuring a swastika.

The rapper and businessman utilized a Super Bowl commercialized connected Sunday to nonstop radical to his website selling the covering emblazoned with the Nazi awesome - often utilized arsenic a awesome by the extreme-right.

The level has present been deactivated by the organisation that hosts galore online buying sites Shopify.

Shopify said successful an emailed connection to Sky News' sister transmission NBC News: "All merchants are liable for pursuing the rules of our platform. This merchant did not prosecute successful authentic commerce practices and violated our presumption truthful we removed them from Shopify."

West's typical is yet to respond to a petition from NBC for comment.

The achromatic T-shirts featured a achromatic swastika connected the beforehand and were the lone items for merchantability connected the beforehand leafage of yeezy.com arsenic of Monday morning, NBC News reported.

No substance oregon mentation accompanied the item, conscionable the letters "HH-01." They were disposable for $20 (£16).

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