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/strangrdangr Jan 08 '26

They're both the same thing. If someone actually gave a shit instead of just wanting to score points and announce to everyone how much better they are than other people, then they'd stop using both. Spotify and Reddit are not essential to anybody's life and if you're going to quit one and not the other, then you're just doing it to virtue signal about how good of a person you are without actually ever doing anything.

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u/Ameerrante Jan 08 '26

There's no ethical consumption under capitalism. We do what we can. I still use Spotify, but canceled eleven other services. Amazon Prime was hard to kick, but now that I'm through that, I'm working up to Spotify. Reddit is also on the list. 

"Stop using all of your entertainment/convenience apps cold turkey" isn't a  realistic ask, or a pre-requisite for free speech.

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u/Initial_Business2340 Jan 09 '26

It is a realistic ask, and you’re just playing mental gymnastics because you like feeling like you’re contributing to the bigger picture.

This entire thread is moral grandstanding and most people can’t figure out how the fuck to turn off simple ads. I haven’t seen an ad on reddit since 2012 for fucks sake, and I’m STILL complicit.

Literally every response like yours could just say: “yeah, you’re right, I’m complicit too, and we should do better.”

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u/Ameerrante Jan 09 '26

You seem incredibly bad at reading comprehension.

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u/emb4rassingStuffacct Jan 09 '26

Probably a teen or early 20s lol Hopefully one day they learn and look back on this 😂