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You knew that this was coming.
> this is in any way related to Spotify's censorship of Alex Jones
It seems quite unrelated with any more information.
> unlike Apple, YouTube or Facebook, Spotify is a subscription-based content service
Apple Music and YouTube Music have subscription services that compete with Spotify.
> We can assume the number of people who actually care enough to boycott a service would be in the neighborhood of 20 million.
Your calculation is based on a lot of assumptions all skewed in one direction, to add more people.
You don't even have into account that there are people around the world that may see this as a positive move that will add more subscribers to Spotify.
Your comment seems to come from no-where. It seems superficially informed, but it does not stand to a deeper scrutiny. It contains falsehoods, a lot of data and a low amount of information, and it follows some agenda that you only know about it.
If you want to make a point about "Alex Jones" banning from different platforms this is not the post to do so.
Backlash is a great reason not to do something for a business, but a terrible reason for a forum comment.
As brian-armstrong pointed out, large stakes take a significant amount time to sell, so my guess is unlikely to be true.
>It contains falsehoods
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most people are going taking the path of least resistance to get what they want. if they want to listen to music and they don't want to pay, who else are they going to go to? almost every other supplier of streaming music and podcasts have banned him. people who support alex jones are going to look at this, shrug, and then continue using spotify while listening to their fill of alex jones on google+ or wherever else it'll show up
and this point makes doesn't even consider the backlash that wmg would have faced if this was really their reasoning.
and why would they only sell their stake in the company and not also pull their catalog if this was the reason? seems like a weird hedge.