When I say "Alexa play The Communists Have the Music" it says "here's a station you might like"

When I say "Alexa play The Communists Have the Music by They Might Be Giants" it says "shuffling songs by They Might Be Giants"

If it just didn't have the song in its library it would've said "I can't find The Communists Have the Music"

So what this tells me is it filters out the word "communist" entirely

Holy shit

Tangentially related, I wish good bands would stop being cute with their naming

If I ask my echo for Season 2 Episode 3 by Glass Animals she thinks I'm asking for a TV show

And Caravan Palace's latest album is called <|Β°_Β°|>, which you not only can't ask for on an echo, but you also can't search for it on Pandora, tag it on any social media, or even use it as a page title on Wikipedia

@socalledunitedstates Alexa is capitalist surveillance spyware and it’s good that it’s reminding people of its true allegiances.