#spotify

The UK Online Safety Act has erected an age wall through the Internet

UK users are forced to accept censorship or hand over sensitive data to unregulated providers.

The government’s response? You’re a predator

Enough. Tell your MP to fix it now

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp-online-safety-act-isn%E2%80%99t-working

#OnlineSafetyAct #OnlineSafety #privacy #OSA #ageverification #agegate #ukpolitics #ukpol #censorship #spotify #reddit

I'm your (not so) private dancer

Spotify users in the UK have to verify their age to listen to Parental Advisory music due to the Online Safety Act.

We're being infantalised for something that's already manageable by parental controls.

It could even end up in accounts being deactivated

Bad law makes for bad, incoherent outcomes. That's the #OSA for you.

https://www.404media.co/spotify-uk-age-check-verification-yoti/

#OnlineSafetyAct #ageverification #agegate #ukpol #ukpolitics #spotify #privacy #onlinesafety #censorship

no more music for U-18s in UK

#OnlineSafetyAct #OSA #AgeVerification #Spotify #Tech #Technology #Privacy #Censorship #Surveillance

Meta QuestにSpotifyアプリ。ゲームしながら音楽・ポッドキャスト再生
https://av.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/2035346.html

#av_watch_impress #コンテンツ_サービス #音楽配信 #Spotify #製品 #HMD_スマートグラス #Meta

"Dire Tiger" is an #AI band on Spotify. It's obvious just by looking at the image, but also checkout their songs:

1. Keep Rocking
2. Rockin' Man
3. Let's Ride On
4. Immortal Rock
5. Rocking On
6. Music Evolution
7. Riding On
8. Just Keep Rocking

Apparently, AI can't make a song title without the words "ride", "rock", and "on".

#Spotify, fuck you.

King Gizzard & The Wizard Lizard Pull Catalog From Spotify Over Daniel Ek’s Investment in Defense Tech Company
#MusicNews #News #DanielEk #Music #Spotify

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/king-gizzard-and-the-wizard-lizard-pull-catalog-off-spotify-1236329905/

And another one. #Music #Spotify

https://flipboard.com/@pitchfork/news-pqu92e91z/-/a-GGUgPc_JT3CsP80U6qjWdQ%3Aa%3A910329480-%2F0

Xiu Xiu will also be removing releases from Spotify.

https://youtu.be/DO6seG5_IB8

#Spotify #Streaming #Music

The times we live in...

#Enshittification #AI #Bots #Spotify #ArtificialIntelligence

"when people now pay for Spotify, they are indirectly paying for the manufacturing of AI war drones"

https://www.hearingthings.co/why-we-quit-spotify/

#spotify #music #hearingthings

Today is a GREAT day to begin your #selfhosting journey, if you haven't already!

Tired of paying billionaires to make life on earth worse for everyone, in exchange for a few trinkets and a load of hostility?

You can replace:

- #spotify -> #navidrome
- #youtube -> #peertube
- #netflix etc -> #jellyfin
- #gsuite -> #nextcloud
- #google #bing etc -> #SearxNG
- #whatsapp etc -> #xmpp
- and so much more!

Any steps you take to reduce your interactions with BigTech is a win for you, me, and humanity!

Need help? Drop me a line!

Are you still on #Spotify?

Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek has raised €600M for his new startup, which is developing AI TECH FOR WAR. Ek still owns 9% of Spotify, but has 37% voting control. His net worth went from $2.5B to $10B in the last two years alone, on the back of paying musicians a pittance in royalties.

And don’t forget:

• Spotify spent $250M of your subscription dollars to invite Joe Rogan to spew his disinformation on their platform.
• They’re still trying to embrace and extinguish Podcasts.
• They’re developing in-house, AI-generated “music” so users will play them (royalty-free) instead of music created by humans (who demand royalty).

And now, he’s using his wealth, created by your subscriptions, to fund tech that will use AI to literally murder humans in war.

Stop funding him. Quit Spotify now.

#QuitSpotify #music #ai #militaryTech #techbro

“Spotify’s CEO invests $1 billion into an AI military start-up — and musicians are fuming”

https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/spotifys-ceo-invests-1-billion-into-an-ai-military-startup-and-musicians-are-fuming/news-story/78805666e2374281801622066dc87319

San Francisco art-rock band Deerhoof has removed its entire catalog from #spotify in protest against CEO Daniel Ek’s $700 million investment in #helsing, a German AI weapons company. The band condemned the move, stating, “We don’t want our music killing people.”

#music #entertainment #us #news

#warcrimes
#palestine #genocide

Report: MEMO JUL-04

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250704-spotify-ceo-investments-700m-in-ai-drone-weapons-company-as-artists-call-for-boycott/

𝐅𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐓𝐮𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲

https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-06-15/fake-bands-and-artificial-songs-are-taking-over-youtube-and-spotify.html

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #ML #MachineLearning #tech #technology #BigTech #google #YouTube #music #spotify

Payer pour ne pas être le produit : #Spotify et #Kagi
https://mart-e.be/2025/06/payer-pour-ne-pas-etre-le-produit-spotify-et-kagi #blog