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He doesn’t want his music to be on a platform that is bankrolling someone who helps spread misinformation about vaccines. He suffered from Polio as a kid so thi
by enumjorge 5y ago
He doesn’t want his music to be on a platform that is bankrolling someone who helps spread misinformation about vaccines. He suffered from Polio as a kid so this is something that means something on a personal level. That doesn’t seem that misguided to me.
- swagatkonchada 5y agopeople have a right to speak their mind wherever they want; that's the basis of the internet, free expression.
- gpm 5y agoAnd people have a right not to want to do business with a company that gave a hundred million dollars to someone producing misinformation. Pretending this is a case of "spotify has an open platform that people can come speak on" is disingenuous, Spotify went out of their way and spent a ton of money to get the content he disapproves of on their platform. (Comment aimed at a number of comments in this thread, including but not limited to the one I replied to)
- aSithLord 5y agodid he catch polio after he was vaccinated?
- gpm 5y agoGoogle tells me he caught in 1952, and we only began mass vaccination in polio in 1955, so almost certainly not.