Spotify is now deciding what music is politically acceptable for listening
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Re: Spotify is now deciding what music is politically acceptable for listening
#2Hmm yeah. Maybe censorship isn't the best weapon to use against Nazis.
Re: Spotify is now deciding what music is politically acceptable for listening
#3Spotify already has an extremely restricted selection of songs. Even for popular artists it's ridiculous how narrow of a selection is in their library.
It's 2017, there's plenty of alternative services and discovery paths to finding music, and musicians.
Re: Spotify is now deciding what music is politically acceptable for listening
#4Spotify already has an extremely restricted selection of songs. Even for popular artists it's ridiculous how narrow of a selection is in their library. It's 2017, there's plenty of alternative services and discovery paths to finding music, and musicians.
What would you recommend?
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Re: Spotify is now deciding what music is politically acceptable for listening
#6Hmm yeah. Maybe censorship isn't the best weapon to use against Nazis.
It feels more like a PR-grab "us-too" thing than a real moral stance.
I wonder if they would be doing this had it not been for the events of the past few weeks.
I expect more companies to follow suit. You can't have an impartial platform managed by partial people. Not saying they're wrong to do so, but it does contradict their music accessibility stance.
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#7> material that favors hatred or incites violence against race, religion, sexuality, or the like is not tolerated by us
Wouldn't this make a lot of rap music intolerable to Spotify?
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#8Pretty amusing that 'American Woman' is in their patriotic playlist, since it's critical of the US.
Re: Spotify is now deciding what music is politically acceptable for listening
#9Spotify already has an extremely restricted selection of songs. Even for popular artists it's ridiculous how narrow of a selection is in their library. It's 2017, there's plenty of alternative services and discovery paths to finding music, and musicians.
What would you recommend?
Going to the local record store
Re: Spotify is now deciding what music is politically acceptable for listening
#10Pretty amusing that 'American Woman' is in their patriotic playlist, since it's critical of the US.
Ditto for 'Born in the U.S.A.', a song about the treatment of Vietnam vets.