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When JRE went to Spotify many people were hailing it as an anti-cancellation move. They clearly misunderstood.. the podcast was decentralized (even if your podcast host shuts you down you can serve the rss and mp3s from somewhere else). And Youtube was another avenue of distribution. Centralization makes you more vulnerable to getting particular content vetoed.

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Spotify doesn't realize this move is cancelling themselves. I just ended my premium sub to Spotify because of their move.

I did the same when they censored Alex Jones.

I mean, for every person here who says they’re canceling service, there’s another few who will happily support Spotify because they either don’t care or they want to see JR removed. Who cares if you do it? I’m not being snarky, just staring a fact.

You're literally stating something as a fact that you have no evidence of. Sounds like misinformation to me.

I mean, the person who claimed as fact that this is Spotify cancelling themselves only cited as evidence their own anecdotal cancellation, but OK...

They've managed to anger both the Branch Covidians and the regular people who were against censorship.

Exactly, got the premium membership to support them in this Joe Rogan madness, but cancelled today because of the episode removals. Shortest subscription ever.

It is “anti cancelation” [sic]: Rogan is no longer the one facing the results of his speech, Spotify is.

That’s basically what so-called canceling is about: asking people to own for their speech.

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