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Re:Spotify continues to remove Joe Rogan episodes by whimsicalism on Friday April 09, 2021 @05:09PM (#26756212)
I'm curious where the line is for you. Is there any legal content where it is permissible that Spotify doesn't want to host it?
Re:Spotify continues to remove Joe Rogan episodes by nickysielicki on Friday April 09, 2021 @05:16PM (#26756287)
Definitely, but Joe Rogan is nowhere near that line.

I don't have a problem with the platform restricting content. I have a problem with the behavior of the employees reaching outside of their role to forward their political goals. If your job is to curate content, and you disagree with the content of JRE, you would have stopped the deal from happening in the first place.

Re:Spotify continues to remove Joe Rogan episodes by qqqwerty on Friday April 09, 2021 @06:51PM (#26757179)
> employees reaching outside of their role to forward their political goals

The vast majority of executives in the corporate world are conservative, and in addition to personally supporting conservative movements, they frequently direct company resources towards furthering right leaning agendas.

Is it really that offensive that a handful of employees are at a handful of tech companies are trying to steer the ship in the other direction? Are you similarly offended when oil companies lobby the government to further the oil industries interests? Are you offended when corporations successfully push congress to pass tax breaks largely targeted at corporations and the rich?

Re:Spotify continues to remove Joe Rogan episodes by gizmo385 on Friday April 09, 2021 @06:40PM (#26757096)
Many employees at Spotify did object to signing Joe Rogan.
Re:Spotify continues to remove Joe Rogan episodes by imgabe on Friday April 09, 2021 @07:09PM (#26757300)
I think it's pretty clear that Spotify wants to host it, seeing as they paid $100 million for the right to do so. It seems some employees, whom Spotify did not entrust with the decision to host this content or not, are mad about it and are attempting a hostile takeover of their company to run it according to their own politics instead of how the owners and managers have decided to do.