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The anti-censorship comments here of course resonate with me, but I'm curious about the legality of this. Spotify advertised Rogan and sold paid subscriptions. Now they've unilaterally removed the ability to listen from millions of paying customers, at least some of whom subscribed exclusively for the purpose of listening to JRE. Do these customers have no recourse?
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(Ironically, equating the vaccine with the Holocaust is what got JRE in trouble in the first place)
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I switched from Spotify to Apple Music fairly recently and I am still shocked on the daily how poorly built Apple Music is. In the several years I subscribed to Spotify I never had issues of content not loading or choppiness in the playback, but with Apple Music it is nearly every day. The only thing Apple Music has going for it over Spotify (in my opinion) is that the recommendations are easily 10x better for discov…
I only tried music streaming last year and started with Apple Music and was shocked at how outright broken the platform is. Like I’d press play and a different song on the page would play. Or it would start lagging out really bad until I reload the page. Shocked and how poor apple did here considering I haven’t had issues with any other product from them.
You must not have tried Apple Home.
Love or hate JRE's content, I don't think anything good comes from silencing people
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One of the ironic things here is that it’s pitted Spotify’s brand as a music company against their brand as a podcast company. For people originally drawn to Spotify as a music service the departure of even a few icons all of a sudden makes Apple Music very attractive.
I switched from Spotify to Apple Music fairly recently and I am still shocked on the daily how poorly built Apple Music is. In the several years I subscribed to Spotify I never had issues of content not loading or choppiness in the playback, but with Apple Music it is nearly every day. The only thing Apple Music has going for it over Spotify (in my opinion) is that the recommendations are easily 10x better for discov…
Thank you! I spent the last few years working on improving the quality of those recommendations!
So we've decided as a society that any opinion that doesn't conform to the majority needs to be silenced? Scary.
No. We’re deciding as individuals not to give business to entities that profit by promoting baseless conspiracy theories which pose a threat to public health. It just so happens enough people are doing so to create some market pressure. Spotify is simply reacting to that pressure as all businesses do. Nobody is being silenced.
I think this will lead to outcome that few people cheering for this are anticipating. Musk, Thiel etc. will back an alternative platform that will host JRE, Lex, Jordan Peterson etc. and in the long term it will win due to being less restrictive. Which in the long term is prob a positive thing.
This also speaks to me of a solution in search of a problem.
You know what's really non restrictive? Distributing MP3s via RSS.
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I can't even tell if this exact post is sarcasm or not but the fact that there will be a non-zero amount of people who think kicking the bro version of gwyneth paltrow off Spotify is comparable to the exterminaton of the Jews in Nazi Germany concerns me.
I think I speak for the majority of people here. Before the Spotify deal, you would just see couple of Joe Rogan clips on YouTube and you have sat through maybe 3-4 entire podcasts. You don't care much about MMA or you don't think comedians are that important/hypeworthy as the JRE fandom would claim. After the Spotify deal you just slowly stopped even seeing the clips because for some reason you just don't care to se…