--- description: Kanye West, who goes by Ye, tweeted an image combining the Star of David with a swastika, which got removed by the social media service. title: Ye’s Twitter Account Suspended Again After Offensive Post image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt08d3bc76794d302c/698a387bd07533eedde6d8b0/GettyImages-1398688334.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Tech](/tag/time-section-tech/) ## Tech Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Elon Musk Suspends Ye From Twitter After Offensive Image Post by [Vlad Savov/Bloomberg](/author/bloomberg/) ## Vlad Savov/Bloomberg Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 2, 2022 6:40 AM CUT  Kanye West arrives at the Balenciaga show in New York City on May 22, 2022. Kanye West arrives at the Balenciaga show in New York City on May 22, 2022.Gotham/GC/Getty Images by [Vlad Savov/Bloomberg](/author/bloomberg/) ## Vlad Savov/Bloomberg Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 2, 2022 6:40 AM CUT Even on Elon Musk’s Twitter, there are red lines for permissible content, and Kanye West, who now calls himself Ye, crossed one of them with a late Thursday night post that prompted the network to suspend his account. The artist tweeted an image combining the Star of David with a swastika, which got removed by the social media service. In its place was a message saying the post violated Twitter Inc.’s rules and a link to its policy page explaining [enforcement actions](https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/enforcement-options "undefined"). Since then, the entire account has been suspended, with all of its tweets now obscured. Ye had 32.2 million followers before the suspension. **Read More:** [_Twitter Is Collapsing, and Nothing Can Replace It_](https://time.com/6234759/nothing-can-replace-twitter-roger-mcnamee/ "undefined") Musk addressed the issue after the post’s initial removal, saying Ye had — not for the first time — breached Twitter’s rule against incitement to violence and his account would be suspended. It’s the most high-profile test yet of Musk’s avowed policy of making Twitter a home for free speech, even where it offends, so long as it’s not in breach of the law. Two weeks earlier, the social network’s new owner [welcomed Ye back](https://time.com/6235475/musk-kanye-twitter/ "undefined") from his Twitter exodus, at the same time as he restored former US president Donald Trump’s access. Ye had left Twitter after the service took action on his posts that it deemed antisemitic. The cordial relations between the two men did not seem to last long, however, as Ye’s most recent tweet, which he labeled his last, featured an unflattering image of a shirtless Musk on vacation. Musk [responded](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1598537334425026560 "undefined") to that post with the words “That is fine.” He also [replied](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1598537459696304128 "undefined") to the tweet containing the removed image with “This is not.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/6238199/ye-twitter-suspended/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/6238199/ye-twitter-suspended/"},"headline":"Elon Musk Suspends Ye From Twitter After Offensive Image Post","datePublished":"2022-12-02T06:40:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:52:53.456Z","description":"Kanye West, who goes by Ye, tweeted an image combining the Star of David with a swastika, which got removed by the social media service.","url":"https://time.com/6238199/ye-twitter-suspended/","keywords":["Tech","Internet","celebrities","wire","overnight"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt08d3bc76794d302c/698a387bd07533eedde6d8b0/GettyImages-1398688334.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Vlad Savov/Bloomberg"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt08d3bc76794d302c/698a387bd07533eedde6d8b0/GettyImages-1398688334.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Celebrity Sightings In New York City - May 22, 2022","caption":"Celebrity Sightings In New York City - May 22, 2022","creditText":"Gotham/GC/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/6238199/ye-twitter-suspended/","name":"Elon Musk Suspends Ye From Twitter After Offensive Image Post"}}]}] ```