And not before time: in 2018 The Register reported that Young had taken aim at Google, Facebook and Amazon for distributing of music without paying artists. But as we noted at the time, to read his objections readers had to sign in to Young's site with either Google or Facebook, meaning he was feeding the beasts he derided.
Now Young's certainty that Facebook does not have a heart of gold have seen him fork out "almost $20,000" to "disengage from the corrupt social platform."Young is an avowed anti-Trumper and sued the president's re-election campaign for copyright breach after it repeatedly used his music at campaign rallies against his wishes. He recently re-recorded a song titled "Looking for a Leader" that criticises the president and invited him to play it at his next rally.
