Twitter has locked Kanye West out of his account following the rapper’s anti-music industry rant, during which he posted a video of someone urinating on a Grammy award.
Referring to the music industry as “modern-day slavery,” West uploaded photos of his Universal contracts, commenting, “I need every lawyer in the world to look at these.”
Trust me … I WONT STOP pic.twitter.com/RmVkqrSa4F
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The music icon was attempting to draw attention to the vast profits recouped by record companies at the cost of the artist.
Vowing “I won’t stop” during the rant, Kanye also tweeted numerous bible verses in addition to remarking, “The media tries to kill our heroes one at a time.”
The media tries to kill our heroes one at a time
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“We used to diss Michael Jackson the media made us call him crazy … then they killed him,” he added.
Twitter responded by locking West out of his account, meaning Kanye is unable to tweet again until he agrees to delete tweets.
“Kanye wanted me to let everyone know that his Twitter account has been locked out by the Twitter Gods,” tweeted Candace Owens.
Kanye wanted me to let everyone know that his Twitter account has been locked out by the Twitter Gods. #FreeKanye
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) September 17, 2020
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Even Kanye, a global superstar with almost 31 million followers, is not immune from Twitter’s censorship monitors.
To add the to irony, before Twitter locked his account, Kanye tweeted, “I know a lot of musicians are not allowed to say anything but I can’t be muted or cancelled so I’m going to say everything as always.”
Apparently, he can be muted, because just like the music industry, the social media landscape is controlled by all powerful monopolies who are completely adversarial to free speech.
I know a lot of musicians are not allowed to say anything but I can’t be muted or cancelled so I’m going to say everything as always
— ye (@kanyewest) September 16, 2020
