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Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive multi-year deal

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Re: Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive multi-year deal

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Post by tinodotim »

busymom0 wrote: post #122

I agree with JRE leaving YouTube over the censorship but I disagree with him moving exclusively to spotify for following reasons: 1. Spotify was the one who conspired with Facebook, Apple and Google to ban Alex Jones and others. So if Joe is moving off of YouTube because he doesn't like the censorship, he's not getting anything better with Spotify. 2. Currently, Spotify doesn't have video (except album cover clips wh…

> Seems like Spotify might be adding video later in the year but until that happens, we don't know what we will be getting.

He stays on YT 'til January 2021. Then Spotify is supposed to have full or more like better (because they already have) video support ready.

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Post by brailsafe »

So he's ending his podcast and starting a radio show. I mostly watched the clips on YouTube and while I do subscribe to Spotify, I use PocketCasts for Podcasts. Guess I'll be using YouTube less which is fine, and maybe I'll tube in for the occasional really interesting guest.

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Post by redisman »

tylersmith wrote: post #26
sdan wrote: post #10

Joe initially said he didn't want to go to Spotify because they don't pay creators. I guess a few million made that thought go away.

Sounds like they started paying creators.

They are paying a handful of creators who have leverage. I don't think they're making any changes to their per-play payouts.

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Post by brailsafe »

nojito wrote: post #150
itqwertz wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find it interesting that the radical left seeks to silence rather than find a competitor. Ideas are just as marketable as products. I've listened to Joe Rogan for years and have found it educational and entertaining. It's fairly easy to listen while not agreeing to everything with his guests' viewpoints. I believe the content is high-quality, researched, and thoroughly unique. If you do not like the content, you do…

It's a lucrative business to be an entertainer masquerading as someone who is educated about 1000s different topics to his fans. He speaks whatever his fans want to hear so that their beliefs will be reinforced and will continue watching. Nothing more...nothing less.

I highly doubt many are convinced he's educated in any way about his topics lol. Some interviews are just entertaining.

Re: Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive multi-year deal

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Post by tedivm »

TheAdamAndChe wrote: post #169
jhamilton wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't see how 1 is an issue when Alex Jones et al were deliberately spreading hateful misinformation. Aiming to CYA by booting someone off of a private platform and others following suit is not the same thing as "conspiring to censor" someone

Conspire - To join or act together; combine Censor - prohibit or restrict the use of something Yeah, they conspired to censor.

Come on.

Verb (with object) > to agree together, especially secretly, to do something wrong, evil, or illegal.

verb (without object) > to plot (something wrong, evil, or illegal).

We all know that "conspire" has connotations beyond just to "join or act together", otherwise there would be no difference between "coporate" and "conspire".

Re: Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive multi-year deal

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Post by 2019-nCoV »

jessaustin wrote: post #223
slg wrote: post #170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Regarding point 1, the article has been updated to reflect that Spotify is holding Rogan to their content policy. This content policy prohibits "Hate Content" [1]. By any mainstream definition that would include Alex Jones and potentially other guests. Some people would even say that applies to Rogan himself for his comments about transgender people. Unless Rogan makes changes to his show or his booking, it is only a…

Most people agree with Rogan that transgender women who have only recently started on female hormones should not hide that status from biologically female opponents in mixed martial arts. It isn't feminist for women's bodies to be brutalized by men's bodies.

The risk has never been that Rogan is holding reprehensible views.

It's that those masquerading as progressive have a penchant for misconstruing in the most creative ways: https://twitter.com/sadydoyle/status/1220513471995031554

Re: Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive multi-year deal

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Post by [deleted] »

slg wrote: post #170
busymom0 wrote: post #122

I agree with JRE leaving YouTube over the censorship but I disagree with him moving exclusively to spotify for following reasons: 1. Spotify was the one who conspired with Facebook, Apple and Google to ban Alex Jones and others. So if Joe is moving off of YouTube because he doesn't like the censorship, he's not getting anything better with Spotify. 2. Currently, Spotify doesn't have video (except album cover clips wh…

Regarding point 1, the article has been updated to reflect that Spotify is holding Rogan to their content policy. This content policy prohibits "Hate Content" [1]. By any mainstream definition that would include Alex Jones and potentially other guests. Some people would even say that applies to Rogan himself for his comments about transgender people. Unless Rogan makes changes to his show or his booking, it is only a…

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Re: Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive multi-year deal

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Post by Slippery_John »

whalesalad wrote: post #77
slg wrote: post #61

I don't listen to his show, but as a general podcast fan this is sad. This isn't the first podcast to move away from having a free and open feed of the show, but it is certainly the biggest and it opens the doors for a lot more exclusivity deals in the future.

Why is this sad? To me it illustrates that there is a lot of value in Spotify as a delivery mechanism and that the existing channels are not working. If anything it should inspire creative new solutions to the issue.

In addition to what's already been said, this is a loss for privacy. Spotify gathers information about you and sells it to whoever they want. An RSS feed simply does not allow anywhere near that level of privacy invasion. If a podcast app pulls that crap, I can always switch to another or make my own.

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Post by tedivm »

herostratus101 wrote: post #176
jhamilton wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't see how 1 is an issue when Alex Jones et al were deliberately spreading hateful misinformation. Aiming to CYA by booting someone off of a private platform and others following suit is not the same thing as "conspiring to censor" someone

We only burn the bad books!

Nobody burned anything. You can head over to his website and watch his videos if you want.

Not giving someone a platform isn't taking their free speech away, any more than me telling religious people attempting to convert me to get off my property is violating their religious rights.

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