Neil Young’s Spotify Boycott Isn’t ‘Brave’

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Neil Young performs in Washington D.C., November 18, 2015. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters)
It’s just dumb and intolerant.




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ince Neil Young announced that he was pulling his music off Spotify in protest of Joe Rogan’s having a podcast on the platform, figures favorable to the move have been busy mining their thesauruses in search of synonyms for “good.” Thus far, I have seen Young’s decision described as “moral,” “empowering,” “brave,” “ethical,” “inspiring,” and even “imperative.”

I have a word to add into the mix: “Intolerant.”

Neil Young doesn’t like Joe Rogan’s podcast. So what? Is it really now Young’s standard that if he dislikes what another person says in public, he won’t share a library with that person? What, one …

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