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Macklemore's new song critical of Trump and Musk is facing heavy censorship across major platforms. (www.youtube.com)
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[–] arafatknee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 60 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Come on Streisand effect!

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

Knew nothing about, but I do now.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 47 points 1 month ago

No required login or age verification: https://streamable.com/vaj7al

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I posted it on c/videos on lemmy world and it was removed for being political… Even Reddit was fine with it on r/videos and they don’t allow anything political.

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s in the community rules, that’s fair as long as they’re consistent. There’s !politicalvideos@lemmy.world and !musicvideos@lemmy.world

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

And r/videos has the same rule, but didn’t consider a music video about the genocide in Gaza to be political.

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Who’s censoring it? Seems to be on the major streaming services. Does Reddit, Facebook, others take down links or something?

[–] auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

https://old.reddit.com/r/suppressed_news/duplicates/1is9voq/macklemores_new_song_critical_of_trump_and_musk/

and seen some other threads about it too. From what I can gather it wasn't showing up in search for some people, made it age-restricted/log-in only which suppresses it from trending and the recommender algorithm.

Been accused on doing the same with his previous Palestine songs

https://www.newsweek.com/youtube-accused-censoring-macklemore-hinds-hall-1898269

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago

All these free speech platforms are so focused on censoring criticism of Trump.

[–] heavydust@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

Don't put it on YouTube where you can't see it without an account. I haven't found it on PeerTube either.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Everything I'm seeing says the song was released 9 months ago, but how can it refrence Elon Musk's Nazi salute if it was released in 2024?

Is every outlet trying to pretend this is old news?

Fucking hell we need to start redistributing the wealth of the rich.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

Everything I’m seeing says the song was released 9 months ago, but how can it refrence Elon Musk’s Nazi salute if it was released in 2024?

Can you clarify what are you talking about? The song was released last week (Feb 11, 2025). Elon did his 2x Nazi salute last month.

Macklemore's been pissed about the things he sings about for quite a while, but this is a new song.

[–] auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That was a different song.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Thanks i found it, the name of the song is "fucked up" which should have been obvious to me

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

"And Elon, we know exactly what that was, brah." 🤭

[–] jared@mander.xyz 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Damn

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

That's a cold ass honkey..

[–] narr1@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

[–] Zapp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

I'd sure like a *.Flac of it if anyone can point to that direction.