Lots going on here.
I guess Joe will say he has black friends, including Dave Chappelle, so it’s all good.
Spotify, just like all subscription systems, can and will delete content at their discretion, the way they want, the way IP holders want it.
Any subscription business is ripe for censorship. You need to know that and act accordingly, dear customer.
Technologically speaking, podcasts are and can be hosted anywhere and played anywhere. Podcasts are like email technology, resilient and completely platform-agnostic. They’re just audio files.
Those 70 censored episodes will be online forever. Spotify doesn’t own anything here: they make you believe so and you believe them, for the sake of convenience. “Look at how powerful we are, taking down problematic content!” And then a prestigious “newspaper” makes it like the streaming media company is being accountable and shit.
Lots of nothing going on here.