LOS ANGELES — YouTuber Ethan Klein is familiar with the boundaries for what you can post on social media. His legal battles have set precedents for commentary and fair use on the platform. For him, the latest music video by the rapper formerly known as Kanye West might have gone too far.
“I’m not sure you can threaten to kill someone even in a music video,” Klein said in his live “Off The Rails” YouTube show Wednesday, which included three hours of wide-ranging pop culture commentary. After a several seconds of watching a claymation Ye hold a severed head and dragging a wrapped up body across the screen, Klein asked to stop the video.
“I don’t even think this video should be allowed online,” he said.
