I’m boycotting Spotify. I am doing this for the same reason as I don’t have a Netflix subscription: I refuse to subsidise the efforts by Harry and Meghan to monetise their royal fame. If either company terminates its relationship with the couple I will consider using its services, but for the moment I will stick to YouTube.
But no, it wouldn’t be a problem for me that Spotify hosts the Joe Rogan podcast – something which I admit I have never listened to, but which seems to have upset Harry and Meghan, as well as Neil Young and Joni Mitchell. The day we banish people from spouting unpopular opinions, even nutty ideas, is the day that we submit to being ruled by a tyranny of officially-sanctioned experts. Putting up with misinformation is the price we have to pay for being able to receive very important contrarian ideas. No one should forget that we heard about Covid for the first time thanks to a Chinese doctor who was prepared to act as a whistleblower and tell the world about a novel disease that the authorities would rather have kept suppressed.
Since Covid and climate change, the celebritariat seem to have got it into its head that there is one set of incontrovertible beliefs that constitute ‘the science’ and which only nasty right wing, Trump-like people would dare question.
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