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Personally, I don’t think that that information should be out there.

More generally, where is the line? Do you let some bully you into shutting up other people? At what point do they decide that something is so antithetical to what they stand for that they need to remove it? There’s also a problem if they say, we’re taking Rogan off because Neil Young wants us to-what happens next? He was interviewing people who said these things. From an ethical standpoint, that’s more complicated, only because they are a business for putting up different ideas and positions. Barton Carter: From a business standpoint, what they would do is decide which is going to cost them more money. Barton Carter BU Today: Was Spotify right to stand by Rogan and keep his podcast going? Barton Carter, a College of Communication professor of media science and a lawyer with expertise in communication law and new technologies who has written three textbooks on the First Amendment and communication law. For his part, Rogan pledged to open his podcast to “ differing opinions” on COVID.Īre Spotify and Rogan’s steps enough amidst an ongoing pandemic? BU Today asked T. Spotify responded by saying it would append a content advisory to any podcast episode on COVID, steering listeners to reputable experts. (Critics say Rogan, who has had COVID, has himself pooh-poohed vaccination requirements for mass events and criticized COVID safety measures.) After Spotify sided with Rogan-honoring Young’s request to remove his music if it wouldn’t cancel Rogan’s podcast-Joni Mitchell, Peter Frampton, and Nils Lofgren, a longtime member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band and Young’s Crazy Horse, quickly announced they were following Young off the platform. Young triggered a celebrity secession this week from the streaming platform for hosting Joe Rogan’s podcast- Spotify’s most popular-where the comedian has interviewed anti-VAX guests. Public health advocates are humming Forever Young in homage to Neil Young after the 76-year-old singer’s dustup with Spotify over COVID-19 misinformation.