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First:

If the government openly pressures Spotify, that is government censorship, which is literally what just happened.

Second:

Because there isn’t a good alternative for distribution.

There really isn’t.

Because the press employs less people nationwide than any time since … who knows, before the 1950s.

We need good information. We need uncensored information and this includes misinformation. We need to hear opinions and points of view including contrarian, controversial, and fringe ones.

I got an something important out of that Alex Jones returns episode. No one else I know thought it had any value, but for whatever reason I saw value in it.

What is the uncensored alternative? Truly.

If cloudflare can shut down whoever they want, if social media shuts down whoever they want, what is the real solution?

If we don’t have an answer, we don’t have free speech, so talking about Spotify being a private company is true but it can’t be viewed in isolation.



> If the government openly pressures Spotify, that is government censorship, which is literally what just happened.

This is absolutely false on both counts.

First: at no point did the government pressure spotify to specifically take down content.

Second: answering a question asked to you about what you think about a current event would not constitute censorship anyways.




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