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He doesn’t want his music to be on a platform that is bankrolling someone who helps spread misinformation about vaccines. He suffered from Polio as a kid so this is something that means something on a personal level. That doesn’t seem that misguided to me.

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people have a right to speak their mind wherever they want; that's the basis of the internet, free expression.

And people have a right not to want to do business with a company that gave a hundred million dollars to someone producing misinformation.

Pretending this is a case of "spotify has an open platform that people can come speak on" is disingenuous, Spotify went out of their way and spent a ton of money to get the content he disapproves of on their platform.

(Comment aimed at a number of comments in this thread, including but not limited to the one I replied to)

did he catch polio after he was vaccinated?

Google tells me he caught in 1952, and we only began mass vaccination in polio in 1955, so almost certainly not.

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