Rolling Stone article On Spotify's Hitler Radio

[BootinUp]

[lame54]

1. Come for the Joe Rogan stay for the Hitler

[applegrove]

2. They keep begging me to come back. I hardly used it. F them.

[BootinUp]

3. After the Rogan stories this doesn't surprise me

These large companies will chose not to moderate the content if customers don’t press the issue. Thank you applegrove.

[crickets]

4. Wtf? Disgusting. 🤬

[Sympthsical]

5. The article is about all music services - not just Spotify

I remember those halcyon days when the destruction of Spotify was the most important thing in the news for a week. Neil Young removed his music! and people thought it was like, you know, a thing.

Wonder what happened to that.

Not everything uploaded or catalogued in a service is reviewed by humans. It'd be impossible - there are way too many uploads. And algorithms gonna algorithm. They can only catch so much.

The good news is, the services remove things when it's brought to their attention. That's about as good as that's ever going to be with a lot of these services. Hope the systems catch things, and when they don't, well, that's why the report feature exists.

I agree with the article, however. Things could be tighter.

[BootinUp]

6. You glossed right over the fact that Spotify

Failed to act on this after being notified. It was only when they learned a rolling stone article was in the works that they acted. Trust me, the issue with Spotify ain’t over. There are other services with issues of course, but Spotify has been breaking their own rules as a rule. Why you feel you have to defend them is not something I need to know.

[Sympthsical]

7. I didn't gloss over it

One day after Rolling Stone’s inquiry to Spotify on why the service would offer, let alone generate, an “SS Adolf Hitler Radio” playlist — as well as why it was hosting a RaHoWa podcast (short for “Racial Holy War”) and several other instances of music espousing neo-fascist ideologies — the streaming service removed them

It was removed in one day after it was drawn to their attention. Good. Hitler's pretty bad.

As for the other stuff, it is very much not my job nor my desire to float around the internet making lists of "Allowed/Not Allowed" because we could be here all day listing things that I think are not great that you might defend. I don't find Internet Nanny too far away from the people who have long striven to censor all kinds of art in comic books, video games, movies, music, books, or other media.

I'm not defending them. I just don't care. There's a difference.

And I rarely trust the people who do, since they rarely use their power honestly or well. Recent history has all of the examples.

If you want to boycott, boycott. No one's stopping anyone.