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So we've decided as a society that any opinion that doesn't conform to the majority needs to be silenced? Scary.

Spotify’s purchase of JRE turns them into his publisher/sponsor. When consumers and musicians cut ties they’re speaking with their $$ and saying they don’t want to support his content. That’s not the same as silencing or censoring him. There are countless open platforms he can speak his mind on.

Is scary how many people think like you. The Whitehouse is constantly pushing for censorship across all tech companies and platforms. AWS even cancelled an entire platform, parlor. Sure there are platforms to move to now but we're headed down a path where there won't be and people like you will be to blame.

Parler doesn't look very canceled. https://parler.com/

Do you believe hosting companies should be unable to decline customers? Should Amazon have to host the KKK? The Taliban? Someone who screwed them over by declaring bankruptcy after a big bill?

Yes, infrastructure level services should be forced to accept all customers, including the KKK. The power company can't shut off someone's power because they are in the KKK. Verizon can't shut off your phone if you say racist things into it.

AWS shut them down. It took them a while to get up and running again and they lost a lot of users.

How are they silencing him? He can publish anywhere he likes, they just paid him to work for them and now he's bringing their brand into disrepute.

“Separate but equal” is not legal in the US. That strategy may work for now but it won’t hold up long-term.

"Podcaster" isn't one of the protected classes under US law.

Even if you view this as censorship, equating this with anti-Black legislation and policies is hardly a sound argument.

Society decided against censors, and the technocrats are now the enemy.

No, Spotify has decided that Joe Rogan's spreading of factually incorrect misinformation that could let to material harm is not the type of content that they want to platform. Not equivalent at all.

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.

Can you point to some baseless conspiracy theories in the episodes being removed?

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