Elon Musk said during a Twitter Spaces that it was his decision to suspend Ye from Twitter after the rapper posted an image of a swastika inside a Star of David. 'At a certain point, you have to say what is incitement to violence.'
"Because at a certain point, you have to say what is incitement to violence," Musk said. "Because that is against the law in the U.S., you can't just have a 'let's go murder someone club,' that's not actually legal."Musk added that the context surrounding Ye's tweet helped him make the suspension decision.
"You can say like, okay, let's look for added context outside of Twitter to say, well, what's this meant in a friendly way? Well, ok, no, he's saying that he likes Hitler and other things," Musk added. He also agreed with another speaker's statement that a swastika posted with historical context regarding WWII wouldn't cause an account to be suspended.
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