Neil first asked Spotify to censor Rogan, I don't buy this idea that stating firmly and publicly: "If you continue to host X on your platform, then I won't be

Neil first asked Spotify to censor Rogan, I don't buy this idea that stating firmly and publicly: "If you continue to host X on your platform, then I won't be associated with your platform" -- is equivalent to top-down, administrative censorship in the usual sense of the term. Which by most sources is specifically rooted in an exercise of state power (or of something more or less equivalent to it). Not the editorial decisions made by publishing entities.