Brutal Attack's noxious frontman, Ken McLellan, can sing all he wants about “bankers of the Jewish fold” stealing your hard-earned, white Aryan dollars - but Spotify, a private company, has every right to decide that it doesn't wish to be a platform for him doing so.
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Such arguments are a canard - Guns N' Roses didn't build a career on racist rhetoric, and if you're not sure why N.W.A's “Fuck tha Police” gets a pass and Brutal Attack's “Aryan Child” does not, Google “false equivalence.” Nor is this really about free speech and First Amendment rights. Wang for Quartz, “will it apply the same standards to all songs in the future? Who will judge?” She went on to speculate that Guns N' Roses could be banned over their infamous 1989 song “One in a Million,” with its racist, homophobic lyrics, or that one could make a case for removing N.W.A thanks to lyrics “inciting violence against race,” which according to a statement Spotify gave the media this week “is not tolerated by us.” “Now that Spotify has laid out criteria for what music is offensive enough to be removed,” wrote Amy X. It's hard to argue with the removal of racist propaganda posing as art from any online outlet, but that didn't stop some people from trying anyway - and not just Breitbart. Within two days, most of the bands on Resnikoff's list had been removed from the service. Of those bands, 29 had been previously singled out in a 2014 report on white power music by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) Digital Music News' Paul Resnikoff identified another eight himself, which he found with the aid of Spotify's recommendation algorithms. Earlier this week, Digital Music News published a list of 37 “white supremacist hate bands” whose music was available on Spotify.
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