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Comment by MattGaiser | Hacker News Reader

I am not sure there is really a winning play in situations like this that does not result in substantial losses either way.

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The winning play is to make no changes that could get you back in the news, and wait for the news cycle to move on to the next outrage.

Possibly try to grease Rogan's hand to lay low on the vaccine topic/guests for a while.

I agree. They put themselves between a rock and a hard place. The solution was not to hire him, but that’s long past.

You realise they have some pretty vile artists on their platform too right? I mean if we're objecting to content here they've literally platformed homophobic and xenophobic music for years. Are we honestly arguing that having conversations critical of big pharma and public health policy is now worse than homophobic hate? The only reason this is being discussed by the media is because this time it's impacting the wrong people.

I disagree. It’s one thing to provide access to a ton of music. Yes there will be some objectionable stuff in there. They can decide to hide it or not. That’s passive.

It’s another thing to actively pay to _create_ such content. That’s the big issue here.

It is sarcasm.

I know it is sarcasm. I just do not see a clear winning alternative that doesn't lead to someone posting a similar sarcastic response.

Neither do I. Spotify set themselves up for this and there is no good way out.

I think the only way this wouldn’t have happened is if Rogan had made himself less controversial over time before a flare up like this occurred.

But I don’t think Spotify wanted a vanilla personality, if so why pay $100m for Rogan?

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