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Where by "behave in such manner" you mean people pulling their music from Spotify? Sure, why not? Should they not be allowed to do that?

kova12 5y ago
When I was a kid, the big guy would approach me and pretend to hit me in the face, but stopping a fist an inch from my face. He was saying: "what am I - not supposed to move my hands? I am not touching you". That's an approximation to your reasoning. Yeah, they are not bullying anybody, they just pulling their music, nothing else is happening.
- commoner 5y ago
  That's a poor analogy, since the artists are walking away from the situation entirely. If a friend of yours starts inviting over someone who does things you find distasteful, you have the right to stop spending time with them. There is no ethical issue with this, because anyone can exercise their freedom of association, which also happens to be a right protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
  - kova12 5y ago
    Okay, how about different analogy. Abovementioned artists use their weight to manipulate unrelated third party to get back at another artist. That's the game others can also play. As someone noticed, Rogan has a devoted and large following. What if he entices his followers to respond in-kind? Perhaps a listener who happens to work in IRS can trigger an extensive audit. Or a cop pull over one of these guys and check them for some medical marijuana, like they did with Willie Nelson. We live in society, you know, and if you think people around these two cannot mess up their lives you are very mistaken. Is that really what you want us to descend to though? Or perhaps we live and leave others alone like descent people should, and look for peace not confrontation
    - commoner 5y ago
      Joe Rogan is also free to leave Spotify if he doesn't want to stay on it for any reason. There's nothing wrong with that, either. If there's strong evidence that someone committed a crime like tax fraud, then they should be investigated. Whether they choose to publish content on Spotify or not is irrelevant.
      - kova12 5y ago
        You either ignored or didn't understand anything I wrote One thing to add is what those two are doing is not actually so legal as you think. If this ends in court, a pretty solid case for tortuous interference with contract. It is not illegal to quit Spotify. But it is actually illegal to do so with intent to interfere with another contract.
        commoner 5y ago
        I fully understood what you wrote, and I am not buying your argument. A claim of tortious interference would be rejected by the court because nobody was actually harmed.

kova12 5y ago

When I was a kid, the big guy would approach me and pretend to hit me in the face, but stopping a fist an inch from my face. He was saying: "what am I - not supposed to move my hands? I am not touching you". That's an approximation to your reasoning. Yeah, they are not bullying anybody, they just pulling their music, nothing else is happening.

commoner 5y ago
That's a poor analogy, since the artists are walking away from the situation entirely. If a friend of yours starts inviting over someone who does things you find distasteful, you have the right to stop spending time with them. There is no ethical issue with this, because anyone can exercise their freedom of association, which also happens to be a right protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
- kova12 5y ago
  Okay, how about different analogy. Abovementioned artists use their weight to manipulate unrelated third party to get back at another artist. That's the game others can also play. As someone noticed, Rogan has a devoted and large following. What if he entices his followers to respond in-kind? Perhaps a listener who happens to work in IRS can trigger an extensive audit. Or a cop pull over one of these guys and check them for some medical marijuana, like they did with Willie Nelson. We live in society, you know, and if you think people around these two cannot mess up their lives you are very mistaken. Is that really what you want us to descend to though? Or perhaps we live and leave others alone like descent people should, and look for peace not confrontation
  - commoner 5y ago
    Joe Rogan is also free to leave Spotify if he doesn't want to stay on it for any reason. There's nothing wrong with that, either. If there's strong evidence that someone committed a crime like tax fraud, then they should be investigated. Whether they choose to publish content on Spotify or not is irrelevant.
    - kova12 5y ago
      You either ignored or didn't understand anything I wrote One thing to add is what those two are doing is not actually so legal as you think. If this ends in court, a pretty solid case for tortuous interference with contract. It is not illegal to quit Spotify. But it is actually illegal to do so with intent to interfere with another contract.
      - commoner 5y ago
        I fully understood what you wrote, and I am not buying your argument. A claim of tortious interference would be rejected by the court because nobody was actually harmed.