Re: Spotify must stop making profits from – and facilitating…

Spotify was named to this year’s Dirty Dozen list of companies that profit from sexual exploitation.The app can be used to send pornography to minors. Harmful content – ​​including content that normalizes sexual violence, child sexual abuse, and incest – can be easily found on Spotify in the form of thumbnails that graphically depict sexual activity and nudity, as well as “audio pornography” (recordings of **bleeping** sounds or sexually explicit stories being read aloud). Additionally, there has been a high-profile case of a child being manipulated and exploited via Spotify by child predators who communicate with children by editing playlist titles and asking children to upload sexually explicit material of themselves as thumbnails.

My idea is simple. Spotify should immediately stop profiting from – and facilitating – child abuse and child sexual abuse material on its site, by enforcing age verification and other measures that protect children.