Roseanne Barr has been purged, people are calling for Samantha Bee to be fired, and partisan blood thirst is running high this week. Meanwhile, on Friday, Spotify quietly walked back a new policy implemented earlier this month, censoring artists guilty of “hateful conduct” from its library.

Vowing not to “play judge and jury,” the music platform acknowledged its policy had “created concern that an allegation might affect artists’ chances of landing on a Spotify playlist and negatively impact their future.”

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