No Music For ICE - a thousand artists boycott Amazon

Over a thousand artists - including Sheer Mag, Chastity Belt, Deerhoof, and Girlpool - have signed a letter No Music For ICE pledging to not participate in Amazon-sponsored events, or engage in exclusive partnerships with Amazon due to corporation's ties with law enforcement in the US. Amazon works with Palantir, a Silicon Valley data mining company that provides tech to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE), effectively helping them to track immigrants and carry out deportations. Amazon World Service is also developing controversial facial recognition software. NME...