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Kanye West Censored by ‘Free Speech’ Platform He Praised<!-- wp:html --><p>Edward Berthelot/GC Images</p> <p>Two weeks ago, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/kanye-west-buys-maga-cesspit-parler-after-getting-kicked-off-instagram-and-twitter">news broke</a> that rapper <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/is-ye-formerly-known-as-kanye-west-actually-bailing-out-the-ghost-town-that-is-parler">Kanye West</a>—now known as Ye—was planning on buying the right-wing social media site Parler after he was temporarily booted from <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/kanye-west-instagram-tirade-is-ugly-storm-of-anti-semitic-filth">Instagram</a> and Twitter over antisemitic posts.</p> <p>Despite West moving to the “free speech” site, however, he still isn’t free from censors, as Parler slapped a West post with a content warning on Friday afternoon.</p> <p>In a “parley”—the equivalent of a tweet—posted at noon, West wrote that he was “starting to think” the term “anti-Semitic” was just a euphemism for the N-word.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/kanye-west-censored-by-free-speech-platform-he-praised?source=articles&via=rss">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

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Two weeks ago, news broke that rapper Kanye West—now known as Ye—was planning on buying the right-wing social media site Parler after he was temporarily booted from Instagram and Twitter over antisemitic posts.

Despite West moving to the “free speech” site, however, he still isn’t free from censors, as Parler slapped a West post with a content warning on Friday afternoon.

In a “parley”—the equivalent of a tweet—posted at noon, West wrote that he was “starting to think” the term “anti-Semitic” was just a euphemism for the N-word.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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