i didn't say people don't have the right to pull their music.
they can do it if they want, i just think its counter productive.
it's just going to be ineffectual and have the opposite effect.
I think its possible
Spotify may cave and decide this is more trouble than its worth
I don't think they want to be known as the right wing kook machine
So it’s not going to have any effect…. except that it might accomplish its stated goal.
Before all of this, Spotify had no publicly visible policies on medical misinformation. That has
already changed in direct response to the controversy, and we may well see action taken with respect to individual episodes of Joe Rogan’s podcast in the near future.
As such, this is already kind of a moot point.
Spotify pays the artists per stream right, should they not host misogynistic music on their platform? they host songs that people have argued are racist, should those artist be allowed on the platform.
If you support content moderation, then you’re fine with companies and services setting their own policies around these issues and consumers/partners making their own choices accordingly.
Although you like to lean on slippery slope arguments, if you support content moderation then yours isn’t an “all or nothing” position. You’re fine with companies limiting expression on their premises/platforms/services, you would just personally draw the boundaries so as to permit, among other things, racial slurs, medical misinformation, and White Supremacist hate speech.
As we’re essentially discussing matters of corporate policy, not government prohibition of speech, the conservative/libertarian stance on this issue is particularly ironic in that it essentially opposes free market forces.
while yes I grant that we are not employees, but Nike get revenue from ads and page views im guessing
NikeTalk is not affiliated with Nike, Inc.
NikeTalk remains independently owned and operated.
and I think I could totally immagine a certain kind of progressive person saying that you don't tightly regulate speech enough on here
Platform moderation is no minor feat. Even services with virtually unlimited resources struggle mightily with it.
We’re not above criticism and I would hardly cry foul if anyone chooses to patronize a service that they believe provides a safer experience.
I would be the first to admit that, although it is difficult to strike the right balance between safety and ideological diversity, we have at times been too patient with people like Ninjahood. Although he was held accountable for his behavior, it was self-evidently insufficient to adequately alter that behavior.
While realtime moderation is, despite its difficulty, an important responsibility that we don’t shy away from, it is a very different and far more complicated task than accepting responsibility for content that we
directly produce or commission.
If Ninjahood were even a fraction as important to the community as he fancied himself and we paid him to post here exclusively, would we not have an even greater responsibility to ensure that his content conforms to our community’s values?
It’s difficult to accept the disclaimer that someone doesn’t represent your company if you’re literally paying them to be the public face of your brand.
Do you really not see any difference between a radio station’s responsibility for comments made by prank callers vs. comments made by the
show’s hosts?
Do you think it was wrong for CBS radio to have fired Don Imus for his comments about, among other subjects, the Rutgers basketball team?