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Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes
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#52Remember all those times you have seen gaslighting ideologues saying "nobody is actually calling for [canceling/deleting/censorship]", remember how they couch any argument with "private company can do what it wants". I don't care about Joe Rogan in particular, but you're deluding yourself if you think there isn't some relevance here. A lot of people now suddenly hate Joe, the same way they hate Jordan Peterson, the s…
> In a short time that will turn from "I don't support him but..." into something akin to "I see you referenced him, therefore I disregard anything else said"
Depends on what you mean by 'reference', but if someone treats an awful source like an authority then that's not a terrible response.
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Downvotes are not censorship.
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#54This is idiotic. I really respected Spotify for their position in the face of 'controversy.' I'm not a JRE listener, but believe in free speech. What Spotify is doing now just pisses off both sides. Pro speech people don't like this, JRE listeners don't like this, and anti Rogan people won't stop until he's 'canceled' completely.
Fortunately Rogan is still as free as ever to publish these episodes in any other venue, but Spotify (like any publisher) reserves the right to host (or not) whatever content it wants. This isn't an infringement on anyone's speech, so hopefully "pro-speech" people (interesting false dichotomy you've struck between this group and "anti-Rogan" people) are just as happy as they were yesterday.
EDIT: A lot of reflexive comments here very quickly assuming this is about removing Rogan's COVID-sensitive content, but looking at the list of removed episodes and how many guests are the subjects of serious sexual allegations, people might want to consider who they're actually defending here.
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#55So we've decided as a society that any opinion that doesn't conform to the majority needs to be silenced? Scary.
Society decided against censors, and the technocrats are now the enemy.
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This isn't about being offensive, it's giving credibility to misinformation that undermines public health measures and kills people.
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#58Podcasting 2.0 is one of the likely answers to this. In the meantime, I'm sure a lot of people will cancel their accounts on Spotify.
Podcasting 1.0 was posting an RSS feed to MP3 files. He gave up his “freedom of speech” on his own terms once he took a check for $100 million.
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#59What are the chances Spotify cut Neil Young or Joni Mitchell a 100m dollar check?
Slim to none
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#60That must suck hard for Joe Rogan. He moved his show to their platform and now is getting massively moderated/censored. It's very interesting to see. In America, I always felt like people were very extreme with their freedom of expression, so much that you have so many abuses like the tea party and others that wouldn't exist in other countries that penalize forbidden speech (like denying the holocaust, being racist,…
Yeah I'm sure the dude is having a real hard time with the contract he's already been paid $100m for is slowly collapsing