[briandear]

If we are to go down this route, I should hope South Park Mexican is removed from Apple Music next. I am no fan of Alex Jones, but he traffics in conspiracies for entertainment value. He’s a shock jock for the tin foil hat crowd. That doesn’t excuse his ideas, but South Park Mexican is serving 45 years for sexually assaulting a 9 year old girl and his music is available right now on Apple Music — an actual, convicted child rapist can make royalties from Apple Music but Alex Jones gets banned? Jones is guilty of bad taste, SPM is guilty of raping a 9 year old girl.

[tzs]

Jones may intend his conspiracies to be for entertainment value, but that is not how many of his listeners and watchers take them. They take them as accurate news that they can and do rely on to guide behavior.

Based on a little bit of skipping around in SPM's oeuvre on Spotify, I didn't hear anything that seemed out of the ordinary for hip hop. I did not hear anything that suggested that his music would be taken as anything other than entertainment by listeners.

Services are choosing to stop carrying Jones because they believe that the product itself that they were helping distribute is harmful. With SPM there doesn't seem to be anything harmful about the product itself. It is just that a terrible person makes money from it.

That's a pretty big difference.

[tpush]

Alex Jones' podcast is banned because of the things he said in the podcast itself, not because he is a massive shitbag (understatement).

I don't know this South Park Mexican guy, but unless his _content_ on Apple Music is objectionable, there's no reason to remove it.