Joe Rogan

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“To the workers at SPOTIFY, I say Daniel Ek is your big problem - not Joe Rogan. Ek pulls the strings. Get out of that place before it eats up your soul. The only goals stated by EK are about numbers - not art, not creativity.“

“Spotify is betting that what used to be known as the music industry is in fact dead but that maybe the company can make money in the ‘audio industry,‘“ Butler writes. “But that shift involves decisions that disappoint even people jaded by years of experience with the recording business.“

”I've said a lot of fucking stupid shit,” Rogan said, ”which is fine when you're talking about most things, but not when you're talking about race.”

”While we always value alternate points of view, knowingly spreading disinformation during this global pandemic has deadly consequences,” a statement from the group reads.

”We simply cannot square Spotify’s insistence on spreading misinformation about something that directly endangers our band’s supply chain, namely, human beings in a room with big speakers.”

”There is a difference between being open to varying viewpoints on a matter and knowingly spreading false information which some 270 medical professionals have derided not only false but dangerous,” Graham writes

“I find Joe Rogan problematic for reasons OTHER than his COVID interviews…FOR ME IT’S ALSO HIS language around race“

He also says he ”loves Joni Mitchell” before confusing her with Rickie Lee Jones.

Neil Young has written more about his decision to take his music off Spotify, this time talking more about the audio quality than Joe Rogan. “SPOTIFY plays the artist's music at 5% of its quality and charges you like it was the real thing,“ Neil says.