European company and employs a lot of people in Europe
Seems like they donated to Trump’s inauguration, do people know how much?
They pay hundreds of millions to Joe Rogan, who was one of the vectors of getting young men into the far-right “manosphere” radicalisation pipeline. Were it not for him, and Spotify’s part in his reach, the US may now have President Harris.
They pay Joe Rogan, they pay Trump, they back “Europe needs AI” to lobby against the rights of EU citizen.
It seems the only people they don’t are the artists on their platform.
Switched to deezer and wrote that in the “why are you leaving us” section.
I just looked into Deezer, but seems that they don’t pay artists well either. Have you considered Qobuz?
Still on Apple Music myself, but exploring option.
They subsidised years of huge losses with blood money from oil company investors from the Middle East just to gain market share and they screw over artists. Horrible company.
I use Tidal which is sadly American but does have their ethics a bit better. Bandcamp is best for artists but it’s still American and partly owned by Tencent which is Chinese so part government.
