I didn't think so. The second sentence explains the petition is a call to "abandon this patent".

I don't think the author knows what a patent is, because I also don't get the impression that the point of this is make the idea public domain instead of owned by one company.

Or speaking of paranoia (you weren't but I did in my other comment) maybe they DO want it to be public domain, because maybe this whole anti-Spotify campaign is created by Facebook, because Facebook doesn't want a Spotify patent to prevent Facebook from doing this technology themselves.

In that case it's scary smart. :)

I feel like there is a ton referenced concerns in that first page I read that isn't really explained, some seem kinda 'off', and just makes me hit the back button.

I'm not singing up for what seems like a mix of legit concerns and ... borderline conspiracy theory / ideas that maybe really don't help the cause.

I'm inclined to sympathize with a lot of this but I'm not getting on board an unknown / the whole crazy train.

yeah, that bothered me too. If it's a pseudoscience then why should I care. I hate it when such campaigns with very concrete objectives try to drag everything possible into them. This inevitably muddies the water and leads to semantic overload, where everything is racist.

Muddying the water is phrasing it well. Don't get me wrong. I think pseudoscience and racism etc. are all bad things that need to be solved as well. However adding them on one big pile does not make your cause better or make the problem go away. Actually it scares people like me away, because it shows you're on a emotional slander campaign instead of solving a problem.

Honestly, it feels a bit 'counter-intelligence'-y to me. Like, it's so over the top that I almost suspect Spotify did it themselves.

The Whois on the site says that it was registered on April 5th of 2021 for 1 year and the customer is based out of Ontario, Canada. Tucows was the registrant, and they seem to be a generic handler of web domains, based out of Toronto. https://tucows.com/

Other than that, I can't really find out any additional info about the site or who is running it.

I'm sure other HNers are more adept at searching for these kinds of things, and I'd love to know more about the paper-trail of it.

https://www.whois.com/whois/stopspotifysurveillance.org

It's also a successful tactic, sadly, to just call everyone a racist, the worst thing you can call someone nowadays, and hope they cave. I'm simply not having it and will never engage in something like that.

Where are you reading that? I just checked and there’s no link in that sentence or the rest of the paragraph.

Third paragraph below the video.

If your browser supports searching text you'll find it too.

It's a bit further down, under the video.

Hm — it's showing up on my computer, but on my phone that sentence doesn't have a link. Weird!