Rogan later apologized for his repeated past use of the slurs, saying he 'certainly wasn't trying to be racist.' The podcast garnered even more criticism after India Arie, who pulled her music from Spotify due to Rogan's content, shared a video over the weekend of the host repeatedly using racial slurs on his show and making a joke about the movie 'Planet of the Apes' while he was in a Black neighborhood. Other artists, including Joni Mitchell, have since removed their music from the platform as well. Last month, Young delivered an ultimatum to Spotify demanding that it take action against COVID-19 misinformation on Rogan's podcast or remove his music from its service. Your grandchildren will thank you in history.The Hill has reached out to Spotify for comment.

“Join me as I move my money away from the damage causers or you will unintentionally be one of them,” he said. This culminated in an overall message of taking dominion of your own individual capital and using its power to influence the world. He also disparaged major American banks, including Chase, Citi, Bank of America and Wells Fargo for their “continued funding of the fossil fuel damage even as the global temperature keeps climbing.” However, Spotify was not the only company he condemned in his message. The only goals stated by Ek are about numbers – not art, not creativity.” Get out of that place before it eats up your soul. To the workers at Spotify, I say Daniel Ek is your big problem – not Joe Rogan. This seemingly did not go unnoticed by Young, who responded: “To the musicians and creators in the world, I say this: You must be able to find a better place than Spotify to be the home of your art. And while Joe has a massive audience-he is actually the number one podcast in more than 90 markets-he also has to abide by those policies.” And I do believe they’re right for our platform. Continuing: “Our policies have been carefully written with the input from numbers of internal and external experts in this space.

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