Joe Rogan’s mouth has put Spotify in a tough spot.
"The streaming site also has to decide whether offensive words are allowable elsewhere on its app, where songs with racist, homophobic and anti-immigrant messages are available," said John Wihbey, a Northeastern University professor and specialist in emerging technologies.
Having Rogan on Spotify is like having a political party with Donald Trump as the presidential candidate and liberal Elizabeth Warren as vice president. “It isn't going to work,” Gordon said. The company has yet to publicly address the slurs, but Spotify recently removed dozens of episodes of the podcast.
Spotify CEO and co-founder Daniel Ek said last week, before the racial slurs resurfaced, that “it is important to me that we don’t take on the position of being content censor.”
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