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.
You mean kanye west? After all a empty right wing ball sack like him doesn’t like preferred names or pronouns.
What a load of fucking bullshit. They must think we are dumb.
OH no we can’t find his music to delete it guess we’ll just keep cashing in on the listens because it’s viral right now then delete it in a week.
Fucking clowns
Um, you have to be a special sort of moron to be Black and a fan of Hitler…sure, those Nazis might be your bud for a little while, and maybe use your money and fame to fund their cause. Right up until the Night of the Long Knives 2.0.
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…
Just in case people actually believed Elon’s whining that he’s total not a Nazi you guys, cut it out wah.
Stop calling him Ye, it’s so cringe and stupid. His name is Kanye West and he’s a black white supremacist
I read the title and thought it was the onion
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!
Yet, the AfD is still allowed to exist for some reason.
They’ve been more careful than Kanye.
Much more, even managed to do a bunch of dog whistles to boot :(
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
Those assholes don’t give a shit about “freedom of art” when video games like Wolfenstien can’t get released in Germany.
Wolfenstein has been released in Germany, just without the Swastikas. Germany is not the USA where stuff is either black or white, so this being nuanced is a good thing - even if don’t like it in this particular case. Which we don’t even know because we can’t look into the state attorney’s inner proceedings
Here’s your damn nuance: “In Germany, we’ve removed all Nazi symbols and references. Unlike films and other works of art, video games in Germany are forbidden to use such symbols and references as they are classified in Germany as toys and not media art.”
Toys? Sorry, I’m not going to call The New Order a toy, nor most of the other story-centric video games I play.
Take your meds, Kanye
Why? We’re giving him exactly what a narcissist needs like the rest of us need oxygen:
Attention.
Almost the entire world’s media is geared to push outrage.
I’m not sure meds fixes… this.
Mental illness is no longer an acceptable excuse.
This is full blown malignant narcissism. And it makes people associated with him lots of money.
I wonder how much of his write off for his behaviour comes from being rich and famous. I know damn well some dude on the street talking like Kanye would get no sympathy from regular people.
kanye:“never”
They don’t make a Clozapine big enough.
Eh more like he needs to be taken out to pasture.
He’s become the worst of humanity.
Who listens to this shitty artist anyways. I get the shock or discovery plays, but dude is straight trash anyways lol.
What an ignorant thing to say, he’s a fucked up person but he’s one of the most talented musicians of our age. He singlehandedly ended gangster raps reign over the rap genre by dropping an album where he sang about his feelings in autotune. Honestly I don’t know why im arguing with you, you’re probably just gonna turn around and use some shit excuse like “its mumble rap” or something.
Nah, I respect your opinion and taste. That’s the thing about art, you can love or hate it. You love it, and I hate it. Simple as that.
I could never stand him even at the peak of his popularity.
The “Golddigger” song wasn’t terrible, but then, I’m not a huge rap fan, so that’s the only song of his I know.
i couldn’t name a single one, or recognize him or his songs from the audio alone. and i’m only cursed with knowing what the asshat even looks like because the attention whore gets the media attention he craves.
Same. I could probably fill a page of A4 with stuff I know about him because I got fed it by The Algorithm, and yet nowhere on that page would there be the name of one of his songs.
Understood. I was just stating my experience.
I have no desire to delve deeper.
i WISH i didn’t like his stuff, but years ago (pre-Nazi shit by a long time) he used to be a really talented artist and he had a really major effect on rap as a genre. i don’t listen to his old stuff since the Nazi shit cuz he needs consequences fr, no matter how small, but it honestly sucks a lot cuz he has some really really great music. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is one of the GOAT albums imo, and as sad as it is to say about someone profoundly mentally ill i think it woulda been best for his career if he died around 2016 😭
Lol, Kanye has never been a talented artist. At least, not objectively. Plenty of people have thought he was trash since day one.
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By that logic no person in the world is talented at anything lol. I don’t disagree with the idea that people are allowed to hold the opinion Kanye has never been a good artist, but I’m not sure what point you’re trying to go for.
You can just pirate it and he doesn’t get any money, yet you get the music.
Every time it comes on i think that, but it’s usually in the car and i forget by the time it’s relevant lmao
People have their own music tastes and that’s okay
For example, you now have something other than Skrewdriver to listen to.
“Nazi Song Big Hit On Nazi Platform”
Meanwhile my social accounts get shut down within minutes of me posting PG beach photos that the algorithm claims are promoting sexual activity. I know I’m sexy, but tech platforms aren’t facing challenges, this is intentional.
There was a trans woman who made an account on some social media account called “do I have boobs yet” and posted a topless pic every day after starting estrogen until her posts started getting taken down.
That AI isn’t going to let you get away with posting beach photos with (I’m guessing) mild nudity or skimpy clothes that are perfectly acceptable attire.
No sir, how dare you!
Scantily-clad people? On my internet?
Such a preposterous proposition!
Damm just too hot 😔
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.
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