Spotify Running Ice Recruitment Ads About "dangerous Illegals"
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Spotify is running ICE recruitment ads that refer to 'dangerous illegals', sparking outrage among users who are debating whether to cancel their subscriptions and discussing the implications of such ads on various platforms.
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I do still publish there, but I vastly prefer my fans grab my music via IPFS or Bit Torrent.
It's so bizarre that someone hovering over the "play" button on one of my songs doesn't know whether they're about to hear Harry's mandolin or an authoritarian recruiting pitch.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/12/spotify-b...
https://justinholmes.bandcamp.com/
...but I think that the decentralized solutions are even better.
I would rather live in a world where we give out quarter of a billion dollar deals to people who do better, but that’s not the world we live in, so you’ll just have to deal with Rogan critics instead.
Do those people host podcasts doing long form interviews with interesting people too?
Genuinely curious how people can think Joe Rogan is a fascist.
https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a33391944/joe-rogan...
Her book is favorably reviewed here: https://www.economist.com/united-states/2020/11/26/a-book-on...
Though I can see why people also in adherence to this ideology may not enjoy it being subjected to scrutiny. Kind of like Scientologists in that regard, or any other cult.
https://glaad.org/gap/abigail-shrier/
And what choice do these platforms really have? They either run ice ads, or risk getting on the bad side on the administration.
1940’s Germany: Run the trains to the camps, or bad things will happen to you.
Sometimes you should say no. We’ve ceded power to corporations in the society so that they are essentially the most powerful thing next to the government. (potentially more powerful than the government in some cases) if they are not willing to say no, that is a problem
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