[snicksnak]

yeah, that bothered me too. If it's a pseudoscience then why should I care. I hate it when such campaigns with very concrete objectives try to drag everything possible into them. This inevitably muddies the water and leads to semantic overload, where everything is racist.

[mg794613]

Muddying the water is phrasing it well. Don't get me wrong. I think pseudoscience and racism etc. are all bad things that need to be solved as well. However adding them on one big pile does not make your cause better or make the problem go away. Actually it scares people like me away, because it shows you're on a emotional slander campaign instead of solving a problem.

[Balgair]

Honestly, it feels a bit 'counter-intelligence'-y to me. Like, it's so over the top that I almost suspect Spotify did it themselves.

The Whois on the site says that it was registered on April 5th of 2021 for 1 year and the customer is based out of Ontario, Canada. Tucows was the registrant, and they seem to be a generic handler of web domains, based out of Toronto. https://tucows.com/

Other than that, I can't really find out any additional info about the site or who is running it.

I'm sure other HNers are more adept at searching for these kinds of things, and I'd love to know more about the paper-trail of it.

https://www.whois.com/whois/stopspotifysurveillance.org

[snicksnak]

It's also a successful tactic, sadly, to just call everyone a racist, the worst thing you can call someone nowadays, and hope they cave. I'm simply not having it and will never engage in something like that.