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I’m not looking for purity, it doesn’t exist. “Living in the world requires moral compromise. Gay states that “engaging with the world with intellectual honesty and integrity is rarely simple.” Most protests are “symbolic,” she says. Roxane Gay, who hosts a podcast called The Roxane Gay Agenda, recently published an op-ed in the New York Times, titled, “Why I’ve Decided to Take My Podcast Off Spotify.” More people join the “protest” every day, including Crosby, Stills and Nash, India.Arie, and Nils Lofgren. And yet, this story continues to have legs. And I believed my kid, because he’s almost always right.

“Joe Rogan has more listeners for a single average Spotify podcast than Neil Young has had for his most popular song,” he said, adding that it was a no brainer for Spotify to let Neil go, given the money involved, and that if Neil Young thought that Spotify was going to choose him over Joe Rogan, it mostly shows that he is out of touch.

Not both.” My son lamented what he saw as Neil’s (and also my) naivete. I was discussing this issue with my 30-year-old son, a wise soul with progressive cred, and at one point, he shook his head as he referenced this quote from Neil that you’ve probably read: “They can have Rogan or Young. On the left, there were glimmers of hope: What if Bruce and Bob joined? Might this “protest” actually accomplish something? Predictably, cries of “censorship!” and “cancel culture!” swelled from the right. (Fellow Canadian) Joni Mitchell soon joined Young, and since then, many others have joined this “movement” to hold the Spotify platform accountable for the damage it did by granting play to such damaging information. Many of you are following this story, but for those who aren’t: A few weeks ago, the venerable and beloved rock icon Neil Young left Spotify in protest of COVID-19 disinformation promoted by Spotify’s highly paid and enormously popular podcaster, Joe Rogan.