RadioOnFire.com - Several weeks ago Spotify instituted a "hateful conduct" policy, banning artists they deemed morally unfit from promoted playlists. R. Kelly and XXXTentacion were the first casualties of the controversial policy. The streaming company's CEO, Daniel Ek, is now reportedly saying he handled the situation poorly.
"I think we rolled this out wrong and could have done a much better job," Ek said Wednesday night.R. Kelly has consistently denied the years of sex abuse allegations levied against him. XXXTentacion was arrested in 2016 on charges including aggravated battery of a pregnant woman, but has yet to be sentenced.
The company chose to remove both of the artists' music from its playlists and from recommendation sections of the site like Discover Weekly, but not from the platform altogether. Ek said the policy left "too much ambiguity in how people interpreted this."
"It wasn't trying to be a moral police, like who didn't right and who did wrong. We don't want to be the judge and the moral police," he added.
Earlier this week Kendrick Lamar reportedly threatened to remove his music from the streaming service if they didn't reverse the decision on Xxxtentacion, and added his music back to playlists. Spotify predictably complied.
Source: buzzfeed.com
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