Former Trump advisor on Kanye West's antisemitic comments: 'It’s unacceptable' - Yahoo Finance

Kanye West, who present is legally known arsenic Ye, is buying blimpish societal media institution Parler, a determination pursuing Instagram and Twitter’s decisions to suspend the rapper’s accounts implicit a bid of wide condemned antisemitic posts.

In an interrogation during Yahoo Finance’s All Markets Summit connected Monday, Former Trump advisor Gary Cohn described Ye’s caller violative posts arsenic “just unacceptable.”

“I'll accidental the aforesaid happening astir Kanye West's remarks arsenic I said to the President of the United States astatine the time,” Cohn said, referencing his absorption to then-President Trump blaming ‘both sides’ for unit astatine a achromatic nationalist rally successful Charlottesville, Virginia.

“It’s unacceptable successful this time and age, successful the satellite that we unrecorded in, for radical successful a enactment presumption with that large of a platform, with that large of a microphone, to marque those types of comments.”

West appears to beryllium justifying his acquisition of Parler arsenic a determination to support escaped speech, saying successful a statement that: “In a satellite wherever blimpish opinions are considered to beryllium arguable we person to marque definite we person the close to freely explicit ourselves.”

Parlement Technologies CEO George Farmer wrote: “This woody volition alteration the world, and alteration the mode the satellite thinks astir escaped speech. Ye is making a groundbreaking determination into the escaped code media abstraction and volition ne'er person to fearfulness being removed from societal media again.”

Last week, Twitter (TWTR) and Meta (META) removed posts from Kanye West for violating institution policies. In 1 post, which was removed by Instagram, Ye suggested rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs was controlled by Jewish people.

Hours later, Ye wrote successful a tweet which was rapidly removed by Twitter that helium would spell “death con 3 connected JEWISH PEOPLE.”

Seana Smith is an anchor with Yahoo Finance. Follow her connected Twitter astatine @SeanaNSmith.

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