“Laut gegen Nazis”: You fight against right-wing extremist music with an invented band

The initiative “Laut gegen Nazis” has demanded that music streaming services should control their portals more strictly for right-wing extremist music. Streaming portal providers would have to “take more responsibility and check and delete inhuman and right-wing extremist content,” said Jörn Menge from the initiative on Monday in Hamburg. “Laut gegen Nazis” invented the right-wing extremist rock band HetzJaeger together with left-wing musicians in 2021 and uploaded a specially written song with the typical content and characteristics of right-wing extremist music to the relevant streaming portals.

This should also show the providers that they are partly contributing to the further dissemination of right-wing extremist content. Both the musicians in the wrong band and the “Laut gegen Nazis” initiative see the HetzJaeger campaign as a success. “Because we have shown very clearly that the algorithms play a very important role in the distribution of these songs. The songs are there on the platforms and it’s far too easy to get them on the platform and popularize them and something needs to be done about that,” said a member of the fake band HetzJaeger.

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Although the right-wing extremist song was also deleted from a provider, it could be uploaded again just a few minutes later without any problems. “We have to somehow manage to build a value system and the big ones like YouTube and Spotify are responsible for that,” added the HetzJaeger singer.

A dropout from the right-wing scene also spoke of the enormous influence music had on his attitude at the time: As a young man, he radicalized himself almost exclusively through music, according to Philip Schlaffer. “I really learned to hate music.” And once you’ve played a song like this via a streaming service, you keep getting suggestions for similar songs. That’s why it’s so important to fight back. “Young people sometimes can’t process that and take on these messages.”

Hip-hop singer Smudo from the band Die Fantastischen Vier, who also supports “Laut gegen Nazis”, endorsed the idea campaign HetzJaeger. It shows how easy it is to unite radicals on the Internet on one topic. “Work against the law in like a vaccination. That doesn’t ever end. You have to do that regularly.”

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