This is a screenshot form earlier today. YouTube hosts dozens of videos like these advertising the illegal sale of the Prince killing drug Fentanyl. Mississippi Attorney General Hood is right on YouTube: They continue to enable advertising for illegal drug trafficking.
Just saw this on MTP:
Google Facilitates the Sale of the Drug that Killed Prince
Songwriters and performers have a legal rights to choose with whom they do business. If I don’t like Coors I don’t have to license my music for their commercials. If I you don’t like the particular views of a political candidate you don’t have to let them use your music.
Well, what about a company that hosts advertisements for illegal sales of drugs, hate rock videos, terrorist recruitment videos and thousands of other abominations. Artists don’t want to support a business like this do they?
Well, because YouTube abuses the DMCA takedown process, and interprets it as a game of “Whack-a-mole” there is no practical way to keep your music off of YouTube. We are forced to go into business with a deeply amoral company?
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We have carefully documented over the years all the nasty crap Google/YouTube hosts:
https://thetrichordist.com/2014/11/17/do-you-want-your-music-alongside-hate-rock-videos/
https://thetrichordist.com/2015/07/16/advertisers-how-is-youtube-any-different-than-reddit/
https://thetrichordist.com/2014/04/15/youtube-still-serving-ads-on-hate-rock-videos/
Other news outlets have reported on YouTube hosting ISIS and Jihadi recruitment videos and serving advertising.
http://abcnews.go.com/ABCNews/political-ads-youtube-videos-isis-scams-drugs-report/story?id=38041543
http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/03/technology/isis-ads-youtube/
We have also questioned the ethics of participating in YouTube hosted events like YouTube Music Awards.
The Trichordist 
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