Weltschmerz à Gogo<p>Despite some platforms rolling back their moderation policies, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube appear to have continued to maintain policies barring hateful and bigoted rhetoric. Spotify, for example, prohibits “dehumanizing statements about a person or group” based on several factors including race, religion, gender identity or expression, and sexual orientation. Spotify also bans rhetoric that promotes hate groups and their associated images. Apple Podcasts and YouTube have similar policies.</p><p>Hatewatch sent the platforms a detailed set of questions, which included examples of antisemitic and bigoted content Shields has produced.</p><p>A YouTube spokesperson responded via email, writing, “Upon review, the videos shared do not violate our Community Guidelines.” Asked about their policies regarding terminated users appearing on channels hosted by other creators, the spokesperson told Hatewatch that creators are “prohibited from letting others whose YouTube channels have been terminated use their YouTube channel to bypass termination.” While YouTube confirmed that many of the people who appear on Shields’ channel — Fuentes, Rousseau, Duke, Enrique Tarrio of the Proud Boys, and others — are “terminated users,” the spokesperson also said that “Terminated users may appear on YouTube in other contexts, such as interviews.”</p><p>Hatewatch reached out to Spotify several times on its media contact web page but did not receive a response. Hatewatch contacted Apple Podcasts, and a representative indicated that they would be available for a phone call, but they never responded to multiple follow-up emails.</p><p><a href="https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/podcast-platforms-host-jake-shields-bigotry/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">splcenter.org/resources/hatewa</span><span class="invisible">tch/podcast-platforms-host-jake-shields-bigotry/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JakeShields" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JakeShields</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ApplePodcasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ApplePodcasts</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YouTube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YouTube</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Spotify" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spotify</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiteNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteNationalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NeoNazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeoNazis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fcknzs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fcknzs</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FuckThatGuy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FuckThatGuy</span></a></p>