The fringes will leave. And the advertisers. Because P&G and Fire and Chase Bank do _not_ want to be associated with this kind of stuff.
It’s much easier. You don’t need to be a free speech maximalist _on your platform_. Trying to tie up the whole podcast market under your umbrella is what caused this.
If Rogan was still doing things himself with a standard podcast RSS feed her could still be heard without issue. Spotify listeners could listen without issue. Spotify wouldn’t be getting dragged in the media.
This is 100% Spotify’s fault for trying to control someone controversial and was 100% foreseeable.
> Every platform is eventually going to have to deal with this
I agree. It’s part and parcel of being a platform. You know what’s better than platforms _allowing_ people to say what they want?
What we had before Spotify (etc.) tried to take over: the open world of podcasting.
It’s much easier. You don’t need to be a free speech maximalist _on your platform_. Trying to tie up the whole podcast market under your umbrella is what caused this.
If Rogan was still doing things himself with a standard podcast RSS feed her could still be heard without issue. Spotify listeners could listen without issue. Spotify wouldn’t be getting dragged in the media.
This is 100% Spotify’s fault for trying to control someone controversial and was 100% foreseeable.
> Every platform is eventually going to have to deal with this
I agree. It’s part and parcel of being a platform. You know what’s better than platforms _allowing_ people to say what they want?
What we had before Spotify (etc.) tried to take over: the open world of podcasting.