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Spotify, SoundCloud and other platforms have pulled the song, but its spread underscores the challenges tech platforms face in removing content that violate their policies.

Spotify, SoundCloud and other tech platforms have worked to remove a new song from Ye that praises Adolf Hitler, but the song and its video have continued to proliferate online including across X, where it has racked up millions of views.

On various mainstream and alternative tech platforms this week, Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, has been able to share his latest song, titled “Heil Hitler,” along with its companion title, “WW3,” which similarly glorifies Hitler, the architect of the Holocaust.

While some platforms have taken steps to attempt to pull down the song, others have seemingly let it spread freely.

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[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 3 points 22 hours ago

The song clearly says he was misunderstood and the Heil Hitler is sarcastic. It's still cringe, sad and shows signs of mental illness but I don't see how it's "glorifying Hitler".

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[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

You mean kanye west? After all a empty right wing ball sack like him doesn't like preferred names or pronouns.

[-] spooky2092 6 points 1 day ago

Why don't we split the difference and just call him NazYe?

[-] horse@feddit.org 63 points 1 day ago

So platforms (rightfully) remove this song, but are happy to let him have an account and make money off his other songs? If they actually cared, he would have been banned a long time ago…

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[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 308 points 2 days ago

It’s literally called “Heil Hitler”.

I think anyone who defends him needs to back up now.

[-] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 93 points 2 days ago

Whoah, whoah, we don't want to be jumping to conclusions about who may, or may not, be a Nazi. /s

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[-] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"Hey, now, maybe he was just trying to "put his heart out" to people. Also he's autistic or something.

Him saying "I looooove Hitler" on Alex Jones was just him saying "I don't love Hitler", but in secret code."

- MAGA, probably

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[-] andallthat@lemmy.world 62 points 1 day ago

When we say "Ye did this", how many people actually recorded, played, produced, published this? I know next to nothing about modern music production, so maybe now he can do all of that at home with a laptop and an internet connection, but if there are others making money out of a clearly unstable person and getting none of the hate, I'd like at least to try and avoid giving them my money

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[-] klu9@lemmy.ca 85 points 2 days ago

Ye was briefly able to upload the song to the popular music streaming services Spotify and SoundCloud.

Isn't SoundCloud in Germany? [Checks Wikipedia] Yes, it is.

Isn't promotion of Hitler and Nazism in Germany a serious crime? [Checks Qwant] Yes, it is.

E.g.

Imprisonment, not exceeding five years, or a fine, will be the punishment for whoever, in public or in an assembly, approves, denies or minimizes an act described in § 220a(1) [i.e., genocide] committed under National Socialism, in a manner which is liable to disturb the public peace.

EXTRADITE KANYE!

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[-] raltoid@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago

I can't believe it was that incident that revealed Snopes as a nazi outlet(they basically said it was impossible to tell and talked about "not being able to read his mind". And they have made zero attempts at correcting the article or changing their stance, so they stand by what was written)

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

They desperately sane wash Trump.

I wonder if it’s connected to the drama behind the site. There was a really good breakdown I read about how a war between the guy and his ex wife over who got to own it..

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[-] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 124 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It was so funny when Alex Jones was like “yeah Kanye we know what you mean, the Nazis did some good things for the German people under Hitler but you don’t ‘love’ Hitler.”

And Kanye was like

“I LOOOOOOOOOVE HITLERRRRRRRRR!”

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 84 points 2 days ago

You know you're insane when you make Alex Jones look reasonable.

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[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

I think we should all download it, over and over, let's see if we can get their CDN costs up to a couple mil this month.

[-] pleasegoaway@lemm.ee 44 points 2 days ago

So when is he going to get a conservatorship?

He’s clearly in need of others making decisions for him.

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Part of the song is complaining about how he can’t access his bank account, so maybe there’s action there.

But we all know conservatorships are really for when your child who you relentlessly groomed as a sex object wants to start keeping her own money. (How much do you think Dan Schneider paid off the family to keep anyone from knowing who her sisters baby daddy was?)

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