In the aftermath of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and Nils Lofgren pulling their music from Spotify, the streaming service announced plans Sunday to add a “content advisory” warning to any podcasts that feature discussion about Covid-19.
In a post on Spotify’s For the Record blog, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek wrote that while “there are plenty of individuals and views on Spotify that I disagree with strongly… it is important to me that we don’t take on the position of being content censor.”
Ek added that Spotify has its own platform policies that dictate “what is acceptable and what is not.” (Ek’s post does not specifically name The Joe Rogan Experience — which was protested by over 270 medical professionals even before Young’s stance, and the likely catalyst for the “content advisory” — nor does it acknowledge the artists who have so far pulled their music off the…
