Spotify, SoundCloud and other platforms have pulled the song, but its spread underscores the challenges tech platforms face in removing content that violate their policies.

Spotify, SoundCloud and other platforms have pulled the song, but its spread underscores the challenges tech platforms face in removing content that violate their policies.

Spotify, SoundCloud and other tech platforms have worked to remove a new song from Ye that praises Adolf Hitler, but the song and its video have continued to proliferate online including across X, where it has racked up millions of views.

On various mainstream and alternative tech platforms this week, Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, has been able to share his latest song, titled “Heil Hitler,” along with its companion title, “WW3,” which similarly glorifies Hitler, the architect of the Holocaust.

While some platforms have taken steps to attempt to pull down the song, others have seemingly let it spread freely.

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
    21·
    20 hours ago

    Is it still music and art that should be platformed when it calls for genocide?

    Edit: whoops I fell for sealioning again

    • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
      33·
      17 hours ago

      The sun beams down on a brand new day
      No more welfare tax to pay
      Unsightly slums gone up in flashing light
      Jobless millions whisked away
      At last we have more room to play
      All systems go to kill the poor tonight

      Gonna kill, kill, kill, kill, kill the poor
      Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill the poor
      Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill the poor tonight

      Should the song I quoted be banned? If not, where exactly do you draw the line?

        • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
          32·
          10 hours ago

          No, it’s Dead Kennedys. It’s written by gigantic leftist Jello Biafra and intended as satire.

          I don’t think Kanye’s song is satire. I think he’s mentally ill and meant every word to be taken literally. But I look at songs like Kill the Poor or California Uber Alles, and I start to doubt whether some stuffy old politician would be able to tell the difference in intent between those and Kanye’s song. I don’t think that old politician should be given the power to ban any of them.