Kanye West’s Yeezy online shopping platform has been taken down after it featured T-shifts featuring a swastika.
The rapper and businessman used a Super Bowl commercial on Sunday to send people to his website selling the clothing emblazoned with the Nazi symbol – often used as a symbol by the extreme-right.
The platform has now been deactivated by the organisation that hosts many online shopping sites Shopify.
Shopify said in an emailed statement to Sky News’ sister channel NBC News: “All merchants are responsible for following the rules of our platform. This merchant did not engage in authentic commerce practices and violated our terms so we removed them from Shopify.”
West’s representative is yet to respond to a request from NBC for comment.
The white T-shirts featured a black swastika on the front and were the only items for sale on the front page of yeezy.com as of Monday morning, NBC News reported.
No text or explanation accompanied the item, just the letters “HH-01.” They were available for $20 (£16).
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