Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes
I don&#x27;t really understand why anyone who claims to be a proponent of a free market economy has an issue with a private corporation deciding what type of content they want to broadcast.<p>JR sold his catalog of intellectual property (podcast episodes) of his own free will and was paid very well for it: about $100M from what I can gather. What Spotify chooses to do with it is completely up to them, even if they bought it with the express intention of &quot;burning&quot; it all, i.e. never broadcasting it, that would still not be censorship. That would be nothing but exercising their intellectual property rights, that they paid for, just like buying the rights to a song that you hate to stop that specific recording from ever being played again is within your right, or even negotiating with the artist to never play it again.<p>He signed a &quot;multi-year&quot; exclusive deal (the details are fuzzy, for obvious reasons) which means he sold his trademark and time for money, which is how the market works.<p>Exactly what he sold (NDA, limitations on his speech in his free time etc.) we&#x27;ll probably never know, but whoever calls this &quot;censorship&quot; needs a reality check. There exists plenty of proper censorship in the world if you look for it, and this isn&#x27;t it.