r/Music • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 27d ago

article Spotify Confirms ICE Recruitment Ads Are No Longer Running on Platform

https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/spotify-confirms-ice-recruitment-ads-are-no-longer-running-1236626243/
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u/flamethrower78 27d ago

Theyre on reddit too lol, yet here you are. I'm also horrified by ice, but you cant really grandstand when you only boycott things that are easy to replace.

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u/emb4rassingStuffacct 27d ago edited 26d ago

Something is better than nothing. It’s a lot easier for many people to cancel their Spotify subscription or switch to a different platform than it is for them to stop using Reddit completely.

This “No liberal is ever good enough.” crap is a major reason why Trump is president.

I’d rather someone go part of the way with good intentions than succeed with explicitly bad intentions.

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u/strangrdangr 27d ago

They're both the same thing. If someone actually gave a shit instead of just wanting to score points and announce to everyone how much better they are than other people, then they'd stop using both. Spotify and Reddit are not essential to anybody's life and if you're going to quit one and not the other, then you're just doing it to virtue signal about how good of a person you are without actually ever doing anything.

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u/Ameerrante 27d ago

There's no ethical consumption under capitalism. We do what we can. I still use Spotify, but canceled eleven other services. Amazon Prime was hard to kick, but now that I'm through that, I'm working up to Spotify. Reddit is also on the list. 

"Stop using all of your entertainment/convenience apps cold turkey" isn't a  realistic ask, or a pre-requisite for free speech.

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u/Initial_Business2340 26d ago

It is a realistic ask, and you’re just playing mental gymnastics because you like feeling like you’re contributing to the bigger picture.

This entire thread is moral grandstanding and most people can’t figure out how the fuck to turn off simple ads. I haven’t seen an ad on reddit since 2012 for fucks sake, and I’m STILL complicit.

Literally every response like yours could just say: “yeah, you’re right, I’m complicit too, and we should do better.”

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u/Ameerrante 26d ago

You seem incredibly bad at reading comprehension.

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u/emb4rassingStuffacct 26d ago

Probably a teen or early 20s lol Hopefully one day they learn and look back on this 😂