FILE - Neil Young poses for a portrait at Lost Planet Editorial in Santa Monica, Calif. on Sept. 9, 2019. Young isn't satisfied with urging his fellow musicians to join him in taking their music off the streaming service Spotify. Now he wants company employees to quit their jobs before it “eats up your soul." In a message on his website Monday, Feb. 7, 2022, Young said company CEO Daniel Ek is a bigger problem than popular podcaster Joe Rogan.
In an effort to expand scrutiny beyond musicians and listeners, folk-rock singer Neil Young urged Spotify employees late Monday to quit “before it eats up your soul.” Last week,after a group of doctors called out Rogan for his interview of a man who has spread COVID-19 misinformation. Podcast platforms have long struggled to moderate the shows broadcast on them. They have not followed the steps of other tech companies like Facebook or Twitter that attempt to detect, fact-check and label misleading or false information.
Spotify, YouTube and Twitter kicked off Steve Bannon after he suggested Dr. Anthony Fauci should be beheaded. But you can still hear Bannon on Apple Podcasts.
Once a society is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens & creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
Who’s the farmer in the pic though?
Or the free market is working itself out. Spotify blew this when they did not take action when the scientists issued their concerns.