Spotify is removing white supremacist and neo-Nazi bands from its music library

[dixiegrrrrl]

Music has historically been a recruitment tool for the far right.

The move, first reported by Digital Music News, follows a growing trend in which tech companies — including GoDaddy, PayPal, and Apple — are publicly denying service to white supremacist and alt-right organizations, or distancing themselves from their content.

On Monday, Digital Music News writer Paul Resnikoff found 37 bands on Spotify with affiliations to neo-Nazi and white supremacist hate groups. Resnikoff looked them up on the streaming service after going back to a list originally curated by Southern Poverty Law Center in 2014, when it investigated the presence of bands on iTunes whose music featured racial supremacy–themed lyrics.

Apple ultimately removed the artists from iTunes.

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Wow..backlash all over the place....

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

1. Better late than never.

These fascists have been normalised for too long. Every expression of this evil extremism needs to be called out and sent back to the hell from whence it slithered.