![]() ![]() Instead, I’m trying to do the best I can, and take a stand when I think I can have an impact.”Īddressing the case of “curious fellow” Rogan and his “wildly popular podcast”, Gay said she believed the 54-year-old’s apology over misinformation in certain episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience was simply a “convenient way of shirking accountability for misleading people about their life-or-death health decisions.” “I am not looking for purity it doesn’t exist. ![]() “Every day, I try to make the best decisions possible about what I create, what I consume, and who I collaborate with – but living in the world, participating in capitalism, requires moral compromise,” she wrote. She added that her decision was “symbolic, as most such stands are” since the majority of her books are published by Rupert Murdoch-owned Harper Collins that has also “published all kinds of people I find odious, dangerous and amoral.” Gay also pointed out that she had previously turned down a book deal with Simon & Schuster after learning the publishing company had bought a book by “white supremacist” Milo Yiannopoulos. In her op-ed, she said she had chosen to make another “small stand” by joining Young, Mitchell and “a growing group of creators”. That's all there really is to say about that. “Until real action is taken to show that a concern for humanity must be balanced with commerce, we don’t want our music - or the music we made together - to be on the same platform.It won't move any sort of needle but I removed my podcast from Spotify. While we always value alternate points of view, knowingly spreading disinformation during this global pandemic has deadly consequences,” Crosby, Stills and Nash said. “We support Neil and we agree with him that there is dangerous disinformation being aired on Spotify’s Joe Rogan podcast. Gay’s departure comes after India Arie, a musician and podcaster said she would be pulling her podcast SongVersation from Spotify in protest of Joe Rogan’s comments on his podcast that it would be “weird” to call Black people “black” unless they were “100 percent African, from the darkest place, where they’re not wearing any clothes all day.”Ĭhip and Joanna Gaines Launching Podcast Network, Blind Nil Audio (Exclusive)Īs for other podcasters, Brené Brown, who has two exclusive podcasts with Spotify, announced last week that she would be pausing the release of any future episodes of Unlocking Us and Dare to Lead. In a message posted to her personal website, Brown elaborated on her decision and called on Spotify to “have a transparent misinformation policy (made available to the public) that balances addressing the complex misinformation issues we face today while respecting free speech” that was applied across the platform.Īlso on Wednesday, David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash issued a joint statement in solidarity with their former bandmate Neil Young, who was the first to pull his music from Spotify in protest, and said they had requested that their labels remove their solo and collaborative music from the platform. “That’s all there really is to say about that. Roxane Gay, the host of The Roxane Gay Agenda podcast, has removed her show from Spotify amid a growing number of high-profile departures from the streaming platform.Īs of Wednesday, the podcast - which premiered in late January - is not available on Spotify but can still be streamed on Apple Podcasts or the Luminary app. “It won’t move any sort of needle but I removed my podcast from Spotify,” the Bad Feminist author tweeted.
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