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by TheSocialAndrew 1603 days ago
The same argument can be made about any TV station. "Political propaganda" is a broad term and "harmful" is subjective. Using these labels to censor content / deplatform you disagree with is the antithesis of free speech.

What really happened here is that Neil Young is so woke that he deplatformed himself.

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Spotify is trying to act like they're socially responsible by adding disclaimers and covid 19 information links, but, at the end of the day, they're funding content that they're claiming is harmful misinformation.

They can't have it both ways. When they got into the business of funding right wing talk shows, they picked a side. Now, they're trying to act like they're some bastion of free speech because they let the nutjobs (such as themselves, by their own criteria) use their platform.