{"id":311026,"date":"2021-07-29T12:06:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T09:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/spotifys-refusal-to-moderate-content-will-soon-become-a-nightmare\/"},"modified":"2021-07-29T12:06:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T09:06:58","slug":"spotifys-refusal-to-moderate-content-will-soon-become-a-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/spotifys-refusal-to-moderate-content-will-soon-become-a-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"#Spotify\u2019s refusal to moderate content will soon become a nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Spotify\u2019s refusal to moderate content will soon become a nightmare<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

Last October, five months after Spotify acquired Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast<\/a>, several employees protested against the show\u2019s transphobic nature<\/a>. There was even more controversy after Rogan hosted an episode with Alex Jones<\/a>, whose InfoWars podcast was banned by Facebook<\/a> and App<\/a>le.<\/p>\n

Spotify has mostly diverted the questions about the podcasts\u2019 content \u2014 until now.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Axios<\/a>, CEO Daniel Ek, said that the company exercises no editorial control over its creators:<\/p>\n

We have a lot of really well-paid rappers on Spotify too, that make tens of millions of dollars, if not more, each year from Spotify. And we don\u2019t dictate what they\u2019re putting in their songs, either.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s great that Spotify allows creators to express themselves freely, but it will have to face the music eventually. Platforms can\u2019t simply ignore moderating the content they host<\/span>.\u00a0In fact, with cases like Alex Jones, it may have to issue an outright ban. The problem though, is wider than this: Spotify simply doesn\u2019t currently have the capacity to scale its moderation efforts.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Spotify
Credit: Twitter<\/figcaption>
<\/a>Spotify CEO Daniel Ek<\/figcaption>