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Re:Spotify is now deciding what music is politically accepta... by Melchizedek on Thursday August 17, 2017 @04:57PM (#15040928)
> material that favors hatred or incites violence against race, religion, sexuality, or the like is not tolerated by us

Wouldn't this make a lot of rap music intolerable to Spotify?

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Re:Spotify is now deciding what music is politically accepta... by quuquuquu on Thursday August 17, 2017 @10:00PM (#15042879)
A lot of early Eminem and virtually all of DMX's discography would be censored.

Which, is shocking, considering that they evolved from the "rap battle" style, where insults were piled on for their phonic qualities, rather than to explicitly associate someone with the negative qualities of the word.

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