At what point of the lifecycle of credible accusations should an artist’s music be throttled or muted on streaming services — if ever?

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This is a good point. In similar situations in publishing (where this is a very live issue at the moment) if the big companies pass on something then there are plenty of smaller firms that will publish. If Spotify and Apple decided not to provide something then it would to all intents and purposes disappear from the modern music marketplace.

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This is certainly true. I guess it’s just a wider issue around if one person of four does something horrible, the other three suffer because of association rather than guilt.

Should Stoke Mandeville hospital be knocked down after what Savile did there?

Textbook whataboutery

And even if it’s free I don’t like signing up to these things.

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If low earnings exclude an act from this debate, then what are we talking about here? Honestly confused about what this is about.

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