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Spotify Technology S.A. (/ˈspɒtɪfaɪ/) is an international media services provider of Swedish origin. It is legally domiciled in Luxembourg and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.[6] Founded in 2006, the company's primary business is providing an audio streaming platform, the "Spotify" platform, that provides DRM-protected music, videos and podcasts from record labels and media companies. As a freemium service, basic features are free with advertisements or automatic music videos, while additional features, such as improved streaming quality and commercial-free listening, are offered via paid subscriptions.
Music-streaming giant Spotify is host to dozens of user-generated playlists with titles praising Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, mocking Holocaust victims, and featuring photos of swastikas and white nationalist hate symbols, The Times of Israel has found. Among the anti-Semitic playlist titles are a variety of explicit calls to “gas” or kill Jews (“Gas the Jews music”; “Jews gas chamber”;”Straight gas BURN THE JEWS”; “Gas Jews”;”Kill the Jews”;”GasOnThemJ3ws”; “burn the Jews”), as well as Holocaust denial (“The Holocaust was an exaggerated game of hide and seek”; “The Holocaust was a joke”;”Rocking the soccks [sic] off holocaust victims”; “Just found out the Holocaust was fake”). The playlists are created by users and don’t necessarily have anti-Semitic content beyond the title and art. But they are searchable and available across the platform for any of the service’s over 200 million subscribers worldwide.
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Spotify was started in Sweden in 2006 by an Internet entrepreneur named Daniel Ek; it’s now available around the world—which is a peculiar thing to say about an Internet service, which are all presumably global by default. But music services, unlike social networks or blogging platforms, must negotiate rights and permissions for each market. You access Spotify in the same way you search Google or watch Netflix; you don’t “own” anything you download.
originally posted by: peter_kandra
Personally I use Spotify all the time at the gym, and my taste in music may sound offensive to some.
August Kubizek, a boyhood friend of Adolf Hitler, claimed that Hitler was so influenced by seeing Rienzi as a young man in 1906 or 1907 that it triggered his political career, and that when Kubizek reminded Hitler, in 1939 at Bayreuth, of his exultant response to the opera Hitler had replied, "At that hour it all began!"
originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
a reply to: Waterglass
OHHHHH!!! The words offend me!!! I need censorship!!!!
originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
a reply to: Waterglass
OHHHHH!!! The words offend me!!! I need censorship!!!!
originally posted by: Waterglass
a reply to: peter_kandra
I used to live in West Georgia; 35 minutes from the airport. Most native born in Georgia go to LSU. You know I saw my 1st Sons of The Confederacy parade gathering in a Kroger's parking lot. Absolutely chilling but that's free speech. Complete with police escort. The blacks in the parking lot were absolutely terrified. So was I. We escaped in 2017.
Enjoy "your" freedom.
I used to live in West Georgia; 35 minutes from the airport.
Most native born in Georgia go to LSU
Complete with police escort.
originally posted by: dfnj2015
If censorship is the solution we are doomed. I think we should allow hate groups to hate. If you do censorship the hate groups will just become more popular because they are censored.
originally posted by: Waterglass
a reply to: peter_kandra
I used to live in West Georgia; 35 minutes from the airport. Most native born in Georgia go to LSU. You know I saw my 1st Sons of The Confederacy parade gathering in a Kroger's parking lot. Absolutely chilling but that's free speech. Complete with police escort. The blacks in the parking lot were absolutely terrified. So was I. We escaped in 2017.
Enjoy "your" freedom.
originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
originally posted by: Gothmog
I concur.
You need censorship.
Show me on the doll where the bad words touched you.