On the idea that Spotify should dump Rogan’s podcast:

When Rogan took his show to Spotify, exclusively, his listenership and apparent influence dropped significantly. That’s the nature of exclusivity. If Spotify broke up with him, Rogan’s show wouldn’t disappear or even miss a beat. Surely he’d just take his podcast independent again, and the result would almost certainly be that his listenership and influence would grow back to where they were pre-Spotify, possibly higher thanks to all this publicity.

And on the complaint that Apple is just as guilty, by “hosting” Steve Bannon’s War Room:

Apple, clearly, does not host Steve Bannon’s podcast. Apple’s podcast directory is akin to a search engine; they index the feeds of open podcasts. They do have lines for content they won’t index (porno, of course, and hate speech), but even then, if you copy the URL for the feed, you can subscribe to it in Apple Podcasts, just like how you can visit any website you want using Safari.

Gruber at his best.

From Spotify CEO Daniel Ek’s letter of explanation (posted yesterday):

Today we are publishing our long-standing Platform Rules.

Here’s a link to said rules.

If those rules are, indeed, “long-standing”, then seems to me you’ve just not been enforcing them. Or we wouldn’t be here.

And if they are brand new rules, let’s see how things change as far as misinformation goes.