Free press
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
LMAO, 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.