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'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup (www.middleeasteye.net)
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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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[–] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I wish people would also boycott it for how hard they fuck all the musicians that they listen to on there

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 9 points 3 days ago

People need to be boycotting all of these clowns.

But the normie ain't ready to resist

[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

That with the combination of privacy invading data harvesting and the fact that they paid to get Joe Rogan to spread misinformation with them exclusively should have been enough to get people to leave. Humanity is so apathetic..

[–] obsidianfoxxy7870@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago

I mean yea, it's screwed up that the CEO is infesting in a military company. But that would be how a for profit company works.

Also I want to see people care about artists and cancel there subscriptions. If people only boycott for this 90% will start using Spotify again in a month or so or another platform that screws over artist.