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Michael Hiltzik

Neil Young, Joe Rogan, and the reason why boycotts work

Neil Young may have gotten something started.

On Jan. 24, the veteran rock star made public his intention to pull his music off the streaming service Spotify to protest its mainlining of COVID-19 misinformation into the brain stems of its subscribers.

Other prominent musicians have followed suit, notably Joni Mitchell and Nils Lofgren. David Crosby, who collaborated with Young in the group Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, expressed support but said that he didn't have the power to join Young's boycott because he had sold the rights to his own music catalog.

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