Despite Universal's false narrative and rhetoric, the fact is they have chosen to walk away from the powerful support of a platform with well over a billion users that serves as a free promotional and discovery vehicle for their talent.

• TikTok, on Universal Music Group’s decision to pull its music from the service

Ha, TikTok really said UMG shouldn’t get mad because they’re getting paid in exposure. In my younger years I might have written a pithy parody of “First they came…”, but now I’m just hopeful people will hear the clarion call of even large corporations demanding to get paid what they’re worth as a sign they should do the same.