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Ye was suspended from twitter after making a recent post.
Kanye West tweeted an image of a swastika inside the Star of David.
Elon Musk said the post violated twitter’s rule against the incitement of violence.
Should not be permanent unless laws broken though.
If multiple repeat violations in specific time window (say 90 days) increase “timeout” period each time.
Ex: 12 hours, 3 days, 7 days, 14 days etc.
Resets after 90 days from latest violation or something to that effect.
— ALX ?? (@alx) December 2, 2022
This happened one day after Ye went on Alex Jones saying “I Like Hitler”.
I tried my best. Despite that, he again violated our rule against incitement to violence. Account will be suspended.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 2, 2022
Many think Twitter should not have ban Kanye, but this puts twitter as a company in a very difficult situation.
Apple as threatened to remove twitter off the app store, doing this would cripple twitter in the short-mid term. With Kanye making the tweets he is putting the company in a very difficult position when it comes to suspending him.
As of right now it is not clear if Kanye’s post directly violated Twitters TOS; but I am sure a case could be made for either side, just depends from what point of view you come from.
There are about 500M tweets per day & billions of impressions, so hate speech impressions are <0.1% of what’s seen on Twitter!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 2, 2022
