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submitted 2 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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.

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[-] Clbull@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

It's not even a good song.

80% of it is him and a crowd of black guys (who may or may not have been AI generated or paid a tonne to get in on the white supremacist grift) chanting "N***a heil Hitler!" The other 20% comes across as some kind of incel or MRA manifesto, where he's whinging about being cancelled and denied access to his kids.

Kanye has well and truly lost the plot. He needs to be detained in a psych ward...

[-] Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

why do y'all give him so much attention?? Tf ignore him the fame already got to his head...

[-] briever@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

When did he rename himself Ye?

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[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

You mean kanye west? After all a empty right wing ball sack like him doesn't like preferred names or pronouns.

[-] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago

Why don't we split the difference and just call him NazYe?

[-] klu9@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

Ye was briefly able to upload the song to the popular music streaming services Spotify and SoundCloud.

Isn't SoundCloud in Germany? [Checks Wikipedia] Yes, it is.

Isn't promotion of Hitler and Nazism in Germany a serious crime? [Checks Qwant] Yes, it is.

E.g.

Imprisonment, not exceeding five years, or a fine, will be the punishment for whoever, in public or in an assembly, approves, denies or minimizes an act described in § 220a(1) [i.e., genocide] committed under National Socialism, in a manner which is liable to disturb the public peace.

EXTRADITE KANYE!

[-] RidderSport@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago

Yes it is, but it's also protected by the freedom of art. Which makes prosecution harder, considering that 2 very strong freedoms act in Kanyes favour here

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[-] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 3 points 2 months ago

I’ll fight Kanye for charity. Live on the internet.

Tell him punkrocksportsfan is not afraid to fight him. Why’s he afraid of punkrocksportsfan?

I’ll fight that dude. Don’t gotta get ready if you stay ready, right.

Name the time and place Mr Kanye West.

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[-] horse@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago

So platforms (rightfully) remove this song, but are happy to let him have an account and make money off his other songs? If they actually cared, he would have been banned a long time ago…

[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

If they remove his other songs, his fans might gravitate to other platforms. This is why they don't remove his other songs.

[-] mycamgirl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

His other songs like from years ago? Maybe those don’t belong to him and the platform does not remove those because that would punish a completely different entity that has nothing to do with what Kanye does now. All his songs prior to 2012 are owned by Def Jam (universal music subsidiary)

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[-] arakhis_@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago

hope he will tour in germany soon

[-] arakhis_@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago

to get him locked up for good, i cant stand this waste of attention

[-] pleasegoaway@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

So when is he going to get a conservatorship?

He’s clearly in need of others making decisions for him.

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Part of the song is complaining about how he can’t access his bank account, so maybe there’s action there.

But we all know conservatorships are really for when your child who you relentlessly groomed as a sex object wants to start keeping her own money. (How much do you think Dan Schneider paid off the family to keep anyone from knowing who her sisters baby daddy was?)

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[-] andallthat@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

When we say "Ye did this", how many people actually recorded, played, produced, published this? I know next to nothing about modern music production, so maybe now he can do all of that at home with a laptop and an internet connection, but if there are others making money out of a clearly unstable person and getting none of the hate, I'd like at least to try and avoid giving them my money

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

I think we should all download it, over and over, let's see if we can get their CDN costs up to a couple mil this month.

I'm puzzled how people are viewing songs.. is that like being so high you can feel the moon?

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