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Spotify, the world’s leading music streaming platform, is facing intense criticism and boycott calls following CEO Daniel Ek’s announcement of a €600m ($702m) investment in Helsing, a German defence startup specialising in AI-powered combat drones and military software.

The move, announced on 17 June, has sparked widespread outrage from musicians, activists and social media users who accuse Ek of funnelling profits from music streaming into the military industry.

Many have started calling on users to cancel their subscriptions to the service.

“Finally cancelling my Spotify subscription – why am I paying for a fuckass app that works worse than it did 10 years ago, while their CEO spends all my money on technofascist military fantasies?” said one user on X.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Dude, you should have stopped using Spotify when they let Joe Rogan on their platform… or when they started hosting fake music.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (16 children)

“Finally cancelling my Spotify subscription – why am I paying for a fuckass app that works worse than it did 10 years ago, while their CEO spends all my money on technofascist military fantasies?” said one user on X.

You shouldn't be "paying for a fuckass app that works worse than it did 10 years ago" regardless of anything an executive has done. Be less lazy and cancel subscriptions to shitty services.

Also, if a CEO doing a bad thing is a dealbreaker for them, why the fuck are they on twitter?.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (11 children)

What are the Spotify alternatives people recommend?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Napster, bearshare

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (7 children)

IIRC Tidal and Qobuz should be good alternatives

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The best time to start boycotting was when they started platforming a conspiracy theorising, testicle headed manosphere peddler. The next best time is not I suppose.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

You're way to late then too. The perfect time to act on this was back in Iraq with that prince dick head with xi.

Also we all should have taken a harder stance at celebrity using these private security companies. Drake's in Toronto blocking roads so he can get all 16 armored cars on to the 401.

Lots of people really defend the stuff by saying "look how much money they bring to the city, we can ignore it" but at the end of the day, it's growing a new industry. I don't get why we don't call it out more like these fucks need to wait in traffic like the rest of us. I don't care who they are or how much money they make. Roads are a public space and shared by everyone equally.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Based. We need to fund european military technology in preparation of a Russian attack on sacred Western European soil.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yo wtf you don't need to simp for a company building automatic killing machines. That shits existence is a threat to everyone but the wealthiest and most powerful.

No War But Class War

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

The wealthiest and the powerful can't hide forever from a guillotine. But first, we take their money.

[–] [email protected] 130 points 1 day ago (8 children)

I boycotted them a long time ago when I found out they donated to Trump's campaign, despite being a Swedish company.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago

I also newly started boycotting them for the same reasons. Plus they don't give enough to the musicians, and support AI music.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago

Wow didn't know that.

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