Kanye West has been banned from Twitter after posting a swastika designed to seem like a Star of David and sharing private textual content messages the rapper had with Twitter proprietor Elon Musk. It’s not instantly clear if West was banned for the swastika or for publicly sharing his texts from Musk, who bought Twitter for $44 billion in October.

West’s ban, generally known as a “permanent suspension” on the social media platform, occurred shortly after midnight on Friday after West made a completely unhinged look on the Alex Jones Show earlier within the day on Thursday. West, who introduced alongside neo-Nazi commentator Nick Fuentes, praised Nazis and really explicitly mentioned he appreciated Adolph Hitler.

At one level in the course of the weird three-hour present, Kanye took subject with Alex Jones calling Nazis “evil.”

“I love Jewish people but I also love Nazis,” West mentioned to laughter from Jones, who mentioned he “happened to disagree with that.”

West additionally made ridiculous claims about Hitler inventing the microphone and highways, each of which aren’t true. And whereas West, who legally modified his first identify to Ye, could also be having a critical psychological well being breakdown, that’s no excuse for the vile anti-semitism on show, as Gizmodo defined again in October. Bipolar dysfunction doesn’t make you an anti-semite, and former staff of West have just lately come ahead to say that West has all the time had a love of Hitler.

Musk, who has beforehand mentioned he’s a “free speech absolutist,” tweeted at West earlier than he was suspended, saying that it was tremendous for West to tweet unflattering images of Musk shirtless, however not okay to tweet the swastika.

“I tried my best. Despite that he again violated our rule against incitement to violence. Account will be suspended,” Musk tweeted after West’s suspension.

But it wasn’t simply the swastika that apparently upset Musk, since West additionally shared non-public texts between the 2 billionaires.

“Sorry but you have gone too far. This is not love,” Musk texted West based on screenshots posted by the rapper earlier than his account was suspended.

“Who made you the judge,” West responded.

Musk, who has referred to as West a buddy on a number of events, tweeted “FAFO,” early Friday, an acronym for “fuck around and find out.” Jason Calacanis, a enterprise capitalist introduced on by Musk to make modifications at Twitter, tweeted that, “rules are rules,” although it’s not likely clear which guidelines West was breaking, since Musk has promised to permit any “legal” speech on the platform.

If swastikas alone are interpreted as an incitement to violence—a legitimate thought, however one which many modern-day conservatives most likely wouldn’t agree with—it is smart that West can be banned for that tweet. But it’s gone time for Musk to be clear about what’s and isn’t allowed on Twitter, given his current determination to welcome again a number of literal Nazis onto the platform.

Twitter’s press crew, which can or might not exist anymore since Musk took the helm, didn’t reply to emailed questions early Friday. Gizmodo will replace this text if we hear again.

The far-right has usually tried to bounce round explicitly embracing Nazis in public as a solution to win what they name the conflict of optics with common Americans. But West set fireplace to that skinny veneer of respectability on Jones’s present Thursday and clearly upset Musk sufficient to ban him from Twitter in a single day.

Twitter’s guidelines are clearly being selectively enforced proper now however there’s one factor that can positively get you banned: Don’t piss off Elon Musk.