Spotify made a cowardly choice: to submit to the Kremlin

i am talking about america causing destruction to countries in their interests of capturing the world and not caring if millions die. remember gaddafi was "painted" a tyrant and subsequently murdered because he wanted gold for his country's oil instead of american dollars and since then the country is in ruins.

same for WMDs in iraq and the whole "bomb" in UN meeting nonsense.

what i am saying is, these corporations do not have a problem when america does these things which they accuse russia or china of. at that time its all fine but next time at the mere allegation of something similar in an enemy country they are all like "we must resist"

How the hell has this suddenly become an explanation for the war (or even a thing in the first place)??? No one had ever mentioned Ukrainians being "discriminated" by Russians before the war, quite the opposite, Russian-ethnics and Ukrainians have lived peacefully in Ukraine AND Russia for generations (except for a small minority of far-right nationalists).

> committing genocide and ethnic cleansing.

This is a desperate attempt by some Ukrainians to paint a picture of Russia as being equivalent to Nazi Germany, playing the same Hitler card that Putin did to start the war.

They are doing that to try to make the West feel morally obliged to act even if that means war spreads to the whole of Europe and potentially, turns into a nuclear war.

Even though there is a lot of suffering happening in Ukraine and Russia is indeed bombing cities in the fight with the Ukrainian army, it's an absolute disgrace to compare that to a genocide, and the claim Russia is trying to ethnically cleanse Ukraine should be as strongly rejected as the claim by Russia that Ukraine is governed by people with Nazi beliefs, both being ridiculous.

I don't disagree, but I think we also have to consider that a "PR stunt" by spotify would be part of boycotts by many, many other companies.

A hypothetical Russian that still has no clue what their government is doing will be magnitudes more likely to notice spotify stopped working, apple doesn't sell new devices, Ikea is closing, than accidentally find one slighly critical bit of content. All of this happening at once is very hard to ignore, also for pessimist apolitical persons (people who don't like putin, but won't do something against him as long as they can do their own thing). That kind of person is quite common in Eastern Europe to my experience.

Ofc the Russian government could frame this as everybody else being mean to them, and instead of making Russians critical it could polarize them in that way, so this is not clear cut the best strategy as well.

Maybe it would be even better to have them ban you for trying to speak truth to power (if this is possible without putting your staff in harms way).

You mean Robert Sylvester Kelly, who was found guilty of one count of racketeering and 7 counts of violation of the Mann Act after a jury trial?

The same R Kelly that illegally married 15 year old Aaliyah in 1994?

The same R Kelly that is now facing further federal charges of child pornography and obstruction?

How is he or his cases in any way relevant to censorship or "cancel culture"?

The guy is a convicted child molester and has been a sleazy person for 25+ years.