Neil Young has just reportedly presented the record label and Spotify with the Ultimatum: Get rid of Podcasts Joe Rogan or remove Young music from the platform. The singer and musician have taken this drastic step in response to information errors related to vaccines. In protest against Spotify indifference, he asked all the music removed immediately.
Young posted a letter addressed to his management and label his recording, put his leg. In the letter, he said, “I want you to let Spotify immediately know today that I want all my music from their platforms. They can have [Joe] Rogan or young. Not both.” The letter briefly appeared on the Neil Young website, but since it has been removed, and on the release of this article, not mentioned about this problem has been made since (by Young or label / management).
As reported by Rolling Stone, Young refers to Joe Rogan’s podcast, titled The Joe Rogan Experience. Podcasts are exclusive Spotify and have gained levels of fame for extraordinary opinions that make a little effort to disguise the idea that they aim to damage public perceptions of safety and reliability of the Covid-19 vaccine approved by a doctor. It is true that Rogan podcasts, which are currently the most popular show in the world, contains a lot of information consumed by many doctors and scientists as really false.
More than 270 doctors and scientists protested Joe Rogan’s experience
What is Spotify’s attitude about this problem? That’s the problem – the company does not have a wrong information policy, so it is technically not necessary to survive against the contents of the Podcast Rogan. These podcasts are widely distributed on social media and have millions of listeners on each episode, but contain many anti-vaccine propaganda that encourages anti-vax movements.
More than 270 doctors and scientists sign an open letter for Spotify, ask for a platform to remove or control the content of Joe Rogan podcasts. This is caused by an episode featuring special guests, Dr. Robert Malone, which – in accordance with open letters – is filled with full of wrong information and “baseless conspiracy theories.” Thus, Neil Young was not alone in his request, but he seemed to be alone as a music artist (with the music hosted on the Spotify music platform) took sure to refuse to support Spotify until Joe Rogan’s experience was lost.
Neil Young expressed his belief that Spotify must regulate the content that appeared on it. “I did this because Spotify spread false information about vaccines – potentially caused death for those who believed that disinformation was distributed by them,” Young said in his letter posted this week. “Spotify has the responsibility to mitigate the wrong information dissemination on the platform, even though the company currently does not have a wrong information policy.”
Most medical scientists agree that especially now, in the midst of the omicron variant that spread rapidly from the Coronavirus novel, it is important to be vaccinated to minimize the effect of the disease, rather than relying on “natural immunity” or other alternatives. . Maybe more artists can follow in the footsteps and request of Neil Young who stop Spotify to support Joe Rogan. On January 25, 2022, Neil Young’s music is still available in Spotify – but if the letter must be done, it might be lost within a very short time range.
