How is Young trying to silence anyone? He clearly knew the answer to the question of "it's me or Rogan" before he posed it.
He's just making it very clear what his position is on Spotify's tacit support of misinformation and he's taking a financial hit to boot.
Comparing Young to Rogan in this instance is a bit of a stretch. Young might force people to think a bit, Rogan either directly or indirectly, is causing people to distrust the vast majority of experts with some sort of dudebro contrarian outlook - and people will die due to it
That's doesn't seem like an accurate take on what he's doing.
Young is either hoping that other people will follow his lead or knows that it could happen. That's why he made it a big public announcement. Young is very openly trying to pressure Spotify into cancelling Rogan.
Whether Young's mistake here is as big as Rogan's is a very complex question.
What we can know for sure is that trying to cancel people because you disagree with them is an extremely corrosive thing to do in a free and open society. It's a very big mistake.
He's just making it very clear what his position is on Spotify's tacit support of misinformation and he's taking a financial hit to boot.
Comparing Young to Rogan in this instance is a bit of a stretch. Young might force people to think a bit, Rogan either directly or indirectly, is causing people to distrust the vast majority of experts with some sort of dudebro contrarian outlook - and people will die due to it