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Perhaps Spotify understood the stakes—that when it removed real classical, jazz, and ambient artists from popular playlists and replaced them with low-budget stock muzak, it was steamrolling real music cultures, actual traditions within which artists were trying to make a living.

Spotify has been a huge success at extracting money from artists and making a few people very rich. Platforming hate speech while stealing from artists is them giving the middle finger while doing it. No shame exists for Spotify, only financial consequences of some kind will change how they operate.