Feb. 3, Jared Schroeder, associate professor of journalism at SMU Dallas and a specialist in Frist Amendment issues, for a piece that explains the business motivations of Spotify and the options consumers have if they don’t wish to support unregulated social media platforms. Published in the Houston Chronicle under the heading: Spotify minus Joni Mitchell reminds us that social media is more like a parking lot than a paradise : https://bit.ly/3GoUOhp
Great. Now we can’t listen to Joni Mitchell on Spotify anymore.
But we can still listen to “The Joe Rogan Experience,” whatever that is.
Spotify, thanks to Neil Young, was shoved into the blaring, often unintelligible, spotlight of the national content-moderation conversation last week.
It joined Meta, which is what Facebook wants us to call it now, Twitter, and YouTube, all of whom continue to experience criticism for very public growing pains about how they handle how people use their spaces.
Young gave the music-streaming giant an ultimatum: Remove Rogan’s popular podcast because it’s communicating false and misleading health information or take his music off the platform. Spotify chose to remove Young’s music, and Mitchell asked her music be removed as well.