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Re:Spotify continues to remove Joe Rogan episodes by luckylion on Friday April 09, 2021 @05:48PM (#26756621)
According to this [1] Spotify makes 91% of their revenue and nearly 100% of their profits based on premium membership, not ads. I find it unlikely that they're messing with their users' interests to make advertisers happy that make up a rounding error in the profits.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/120314/spoti...

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Re:Spotify continues to remove Joe Rogan episodes by alkonaut on Friday April 09, 2021 @06:10PM (#26756820)
I (N=1) would seriously consider cancelling my Spotify subscription if Spotify kept pushing Alex Jones. It's not that far fetched.
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Re:Spotify continues to remove Joe Rogan episodes by sn_master on Friday April 09, 2021 @10:56PM (#26758554)
What do you mean by "pushing"? Recommending him in your home page, with no option to disable the said recommendations? Or just hosting him at all on their platform?

Do you have the same opinion about YouTube, which has every political spectrum and its polar opposite on the same platform?

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Re:Spotify continues to remove Joe Rogan episodes by alkonaut on Saturday April 10, 2021 @03:33AM (#26759688)
I mean “sponsoring” or “enabling” to a level beyond just existing in their catalog does.

I think it’s great that YouTube, Facebook, Twitter etc also ban Alex Jones yes. I see the risk of tech platforms acting as giant censors to be the smaller problem here.

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Re:Spotify continues to remove Joe Rogan episodes by sn_master on Friday April 09, 2021 @05:59PM (#26756719)
Interesting. Then perhaps its higher ups in Spotify who might be afraid of getting accused of hosting content that isn't in favor with the MSM and ruling regime in the US?
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