“We are glad to have been alerted to this content—and have already removed many of the bands identified.”
After the events of last weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, neo-Nazism has been newly thrust to the forefront of the minds of many, despite the fact that these groups have been alive and kicking for a really long time.
And though many feel as though white supremacists don’t have a place in the music world, it’d be naive to think that “hate music” doesn’t exist at all.That’s where a recent Spotify-related story comes in. On Wednesday, the streaming service announced that it had started to remove a significant amount of music, following a Digital Music News piece called “I Just Found 37 White Supremacist Hate Bands on Spotify.” Obviously the removal is a good thing, but at the same time, there is kind of an elephant in the room: why has music that could incite racial hatred stayed on the platform until August 2017? And where goes giving such music a platform fit into respecting freedoms of speech and expression?
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