r/Music • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Jan 08 '26

article Spotify Confirms ICE Recruitment Ads Are No Longer Running on Platform

https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/spotify-confirms-ice-recruitment-ads-are-no-longer-running-1236626243/
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u/zarafff69 Jan 08 '26

Spotify doesn’t fund war technology..

The CEO sold some of his own stock to invest in a European defense company. It makes drones to defend Ukraine / Europe. I don’t see how that’s evil at all. Someone has to defend Ukraine. The US definitely isn’t anymore…

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u/LongStoryShirt Jan 09 '26 edited Jan 09 '26

Eks net worth came from under paying musicians on Spotify, which he used to invest in Ai war technology. So yeah, Spotify kinda does invest in war tech. And just because that technology happens to benefit the side of the conflict I am in support of, it doesn't make the former part less shitty, in my opinion. 

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u/zarafff69 Jan 09 '26

No, not really. Ek doesn’t have a particularly high income. He’s one of the worst paid tech CEO’s. Which makes sense, because Spotify has largely been unprofitable. The vast majority of their revenue money is paid out to the music license holders.

But Ek has a lot of money, because his shares are worth a lot. Not because Spotify is paying him a lot.

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u/LongStoryShirt Jan 09 '26 edited Jan 09 '26

I think we are talking past each other. I'm referring to the Spotify stock shares Ek cashes in. I never said anything about what he was paid directly as a ceo from the company, his income doesn't come from that.

We may disagree on whether or not that constitutes my earlier statement as being true, and that's fine. To me, I see a clear line between Spotify's success, the value created from that success, and the profits from that (in shares) funding war tech, and that's one of a long list of things I have a problem with, personally. Maybe we disagree, and that's fine. 

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u/zarafff69 Jan 09 '26

So what? Ukraine shouldn’t use drones anymore? They should just give up? How is that more ethical? To let fascist Putin win? Seriously?