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His stance is not anti-free-speech at all. It is "I don't think Spotify should associate with this specific person and I don't want to associate with them if th
by sanderjd 5y ago
His stance is not anti-free-speech at all. It is "I don't think Spotify should associate with this specific person and I don't want to associate with them if they do". It would not be anti-free-speech for me to refuse to go to a dinner party where I know they've also invited someone I don't want to associate with, or to tell the hosts why I don't want to be there.
- josephcsible 5y agoYoung's stance is more like "I don't think Spotify should associate with this specific person because he exercises his freedom of speech to say things that I disagree with, and I don't want to associate with them if they do". Not wanting to associate with Spotify isn't in and of itself anti-free speech, but it is when that's your reason why.
- sanderjd 5y agoNo his problem is pretty clearly with the content itself, not the meta-issue of his ability to express it. And it's totally fine to not want to associate with people you don't want to associate with or with people who associate with those people. We all do this picking and choosing of associations all the time; it's ordinary.