> Spotify is NOT the open web.

Of course it is not.

It is bait and switch process.

First you get a company create a large platform that makes it very difficult to for individual people to thrive in the space around it.

Then the large company starts deciding what can or cannot be published, effectively making it impossible for some people to even be present in that space.

Now, imagine the same happens for every possible space you could use to contact other people. Videos, podcasts, have a web page searchable on search engines, tweet, instant messaging, and so on and on. You are effectively excluded because your views do not match mainstream or touch controversial or taboo subjects.

I may not agree with Rogan or other people that are being excluded but that does not necessarily give me right to decide whether they shouldn't be heard by other people.

I strongly believe this is where judicial system is supposed to represent us to follow laws to judge which instances of speech are and which are not lawful.

What we have now is effectively mob rule.

Imagine some people win and decide that talking about racism should quieted down. Is it that hard to imagine?