Spotify, SoundCloud and other platforms have pulled the song, but its spread underscores the challenges tech platforms face in removing content that violate their policies.

Spotify, SoundCloud and other tech platforms have worked to remove a new song from Ye that praises Adolf Hitler, but the song and its video have continued to proliferate online including across X, where it has racked up millions of views.

On various mainstream and alternative tech platforms this week, Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, has been able to share his latest song, titled “Heil Hitler,” along with its companion title, “WW3,” which similarly glorifies Hitler, the architect of the Holocaust.

While some platforms have taken steps to attempt to pull down the song, others have seemingly let it spread freely.

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      The best way for him to get left alone would be for him or someone responsible to take down his public image as much as possible. This would be a win/win in the sense that he gets more normalcy and we don’t have to endure someone with a massive platform spreading hardcore nazi stuff.

      That said until he is taken out of the public spotlight, it is incumbent on everyone to make it clear that these views are rejected in the strongest possible terms.

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        That said until he is taken out of the public spotlight, it is incumbent on everyone to make it clear that these views are rejected in the strongest possible terms.

        Hear hear. RFK? Clinically sick. Musk is likely clinically sick, or at least on too many drugs to brain right. That doesn’t mean they should be “left alone.” You don’t leave alone until they’re deplatformed and powerless. And in Musk’s case, made into some strange fruit.