Spotify CEO Criticizes Kanye’s Anti-Semitism, But Won’t Remove His Music
Written by SOURCE on October 26, 2022
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek has criticized the artist formerly known as Kanye West’s recent anti-Semitic remarks, but won’t remove his music from the platform.
In an interview with Reuters, Ek said that while he finds Ye’s comments about the Jewish community to be “awful,” his music itself doesn’t violate anti-hate policies on Spotify. “It’s really just his music, and his music doesn’t violate our policy,” Ek said. “It’s up to his label, if they want to take action or not.”
If Ye’s music itself contained anti-Semitic comments, or he made similar remarks on a podcast, only then would he have violated the Spotify hate speech policy.
Ek said that the streaming platform “would respect their wishes” if Def Jam, the label behind the distribution of all of Ye’s albums besides Donda 2, requests the removal of his music.
This story is being updated.
