Spotify Removes ‘Hate Bands’ from Platform Following Charlottesville

Popular music streaming service Spotify has removed a list of “hate bands” from the platform in response to the Charlottesville white supremacist rally last week.

A Spotify spokeswoman told Breitbart Tech in a statement that “the music in our catalog comes from hundreds of thousands of record companies and aggregators all over the world, and those are ‘at first hand responsible’ for the content they deliver.”
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“Illegal content or material that favors hatred or incites violence against race, religion, sexuality or the like is not tolerated by us,” claimed Spotify. “Spotify takes immediate action to remove any such material as soon as it has been brought to our attention. We are glad to have been alerted to this content – and have already removed many of the bands identified today, whilst urgently reviewing the remainder.”

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