“We must not witness or permit such hate and bigotry in our country, and we must be unequivocal about it,” Cook wrote. “I disagree with the president and others who believe that there is a moral equivalence between white supremacists and Nazis, and those who oppose them by standing up for human rights. Amid the ongoing fallout from the violence that saw a civil rights activist killed, music subscription service Spotify began removing so-called white power music, flagged by the SPLC as racist “hate bands”. Spotify takes immediate action to remove any such material as soon as it has been brought to our attention. The wave of crackdowns against white supremacists and neo-Nazis reflects a rapidly changing mindset among Silicon Valley firms on how far they are willing to go to police hate speech.

Source: The Guardian August 17, 2017 11:15 UTC