Posted on 01/29/2022 6:28:21 AM PST by DoodleBob
Neil Young has a big supporter in his Spotify boycott.
Earlier this week, the famed rocker wrote an open letter to the streamer, threatening to remove his music from the platform. He blamed Spotify for spreading false information about COVID-19 vaccines via Joe Rogan's podcast.
"They can have Rogan or Young. Not both," he wrote in the letter. Spotify has since removed the artist's music.
On Thursday, the "Heart of Gold" singer's boycott of the platform was praised by Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization.
".@NeilYoungNYA, thanks for standing up against misinformation and inaccuracies around #COVID19 vaccination," Ghebreyesus wrote on Twitter. "Public and private sector, in particular #socialmedia platforms, media, individuals - we all have a role to play to end this pandemic and infodemic."
A spokesperson for Spotify told the Wall Street Journal that they had removed over 20,000 podcast episodes related to coronavirus since the start of the pandemic, in accordance with their detailed content policies.
"We want all the world’s music and audio content to be available to Spotify users. With that comes great responsibility in balancing both safety for listeners and freedom for creators," they said, later adding: "We regret Neil’s decision to remove his music from Spotify, but hope to welcome him back soon."
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Opposing viewpoints = misinformation. Newspeak. Don’t let the left control our language.
Didn’t he write a song in 1970?
This summer I hear the drumming
Free speech dead by old Neil Young
I care what the WHO thinks.
They told me to get on my knees
And pray
That I don’t get fooled
Again.
Apparently, Mr. Young and Ms. Mitchell have failed to sufficiently pray, thus the fooling endures.
So, you’re saying that Roger Daltrey is involved in this thing now?
WHO gives a damn what WHO thinks?
No one listens to that lefty hippy west coast drivel anymore. It was pitiful then, and pitiful now. Not saying there was no talent. There was. It’s just the songs themselves that sucked, in my opinion.
They're all scared, because for a bigly number of them, Rogan is to that generation what Limbaugh was to conservatives in the 90s. Rogan is a leftish libertarian and appeals to massive numbers of millenials and GenZers. Further, the kidz see MSNBC and TikTok as the arrogant popular mean girls of their generation.
In a strange way, Rogan is popular because the left has become the Empire and normal kids are the rebels. The "success" of leftism has made them the object of derision for youth rebellion, and Rogan is their point man.
2022 is shaping up to be Return of the Jedi.
You mean current punk rock guy or they were a punk rock guy in the 80’s??
Read this on some forum’s comments —
People 30 and under: “Who’s Neil Young?”
People 31 to 60: “Neil Young’s still alive?”
People 61+ “What’s Spotify?”
Young is a woketard boomer, yesterday’s news, and a pro-censorship communist. He went full woketard. And lost. Never go full woketard.
He’s been a hard core drug addict most of his life. Claims he stopped recently (with no proof), after totally screwing up his mind.
MSNBC and CNN?
Chuckle.
I love your analysis! That’s exactly how it breaks down by age!
I would make them prove with quotes and actual video clips where Rogan is saying something that is demonstrably false.
That was Satire, right?
The WHO in the article is the World Health Org
Not the great Band the WHO
There you go again, IYAS9YAS, being reasonable!
That's so-oo "old school!"
Regards,
Hey, Hey
My, My.
Take my shit
Off Spotify.
Rogan is so meeeeeean
He make me wanna cry.
Hey, Hey
My, My.
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