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Originally Posted by aschen

To continue with the absurd speculation, think of what poor unknown starving artist Joe Rogan would have to resort to if Young was successful with his ultimatum

Completely unconscionable that he wouldn't want to share his art on a platform that actively promotes a view he is morally opposed to. Next thing you know the church wont want to host mass in the planned parenthoods basement.

I don't recall the platform actively promoting the views of either artist. Can you describe how they did so?

Young and other artists tried to use their combined influence to remove another artist from a platform that had no open political viewpoints. Folks were free to listen to whichever artist they chose.

If activist political Karens in the business can blackmail platforms to ban Joe Rogan, what about a small, starting artist? This was probably not the first or last time. The difference was that this time they attacked a person that was worth more to the platform than they were.

Rogan's net worth is estimated at $120M. The deal for his podcast that Young sought to have shut down was reported to be for $120M.

BTW, that is a really poor analogy. A better one would be having a pro-life group and a planned parenthood abortion clinic renting different floors of the same building (owned by someone that just wanted to collect rent from both and not kick either out over their views).