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.
It’s a self-preservation attempt. It’s the same reason bullies amass followers. Appeasing the powerful jerk usually works to prevent being targeted by them.
However, that would require the powerful jerk to actually value that sort of loyalty.
It’s clear that neither Trump nor Musk feel any kind of obligation to those who’ve lifted them up. Like many bootlickers across the United States, Kanye over-values his own importance and expects others to view him the same - similar to how many immigrants voted for Trump, thinking that surely they were the exception to all his anti-immigrant rhetoric, all the while refusing to listen to those of us who said they’d be lumped in together regardless.
People’s inability to share another person’s perspective has absolutely shredded our social fabric.