Good. Platforms can't claim neutrality in this age of disinfo.
Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes
511–520 of 1001 posts
Re: Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes
#512I don't really understand why anyone who claims to be a proponent of a free market economy has an issue with a private corporation deciding what type of content they want to broadcast. JR sold his catalog of intellectual property (podcast episodes) of his own free will and was paid very well for it: about $100M from what I can gather. What Spotify chooses to do with it is completely up to them, even if they bought it…
It seems to have been a licensing deal, so control reverts to him at the end of the deal. It doesn't sound like he actually "sold" all rights, and he almost certainly only sold certain rights even during the deal. As you say, we'll probably never know all of the details.
Re: Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes
#513I did a rough tally of the 70 removed episodes: Comedian: 45, Political Commentator/Media Personality: 8, Brian Redban: 5, Health/Fitness: 2, Scientist: 2, Author: 2, Musician: 1, Pornstar: 1, (MMA) Fight Companion: 1, Giorgio Tsoukalos, Kevin Smith, Cliffy B & Johnny Cristo (can't even figure out who these last two are)
Some of them are really baffling. Tom Segura, Bert Kreischer, Ian Edwards? Tim Ferris?
Bill Burr?
Re: Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes
#514Earlier quoted context omitted.
Government outsourcing censorship to businesses doesn’t make it less wrong.
Do you believe censorship is wrong all cases? What about a biologist providing instructions on how to add lethal mutations to viruses? Or a physicist giving detailed instructions about how to construct dirty nuclear bombs? There is certain knowledge that is unsafe to be widely disseminated, would you be against the censorship of said content? I mention this because arguably, allowing covid to proliferate means thousa…
You just gave two very poor examples. Anyone who have any ability to add lethal mutation are probably biologists anyway. And instructions to construct nuclear bombs are probably on somewhere on the Internet anyway, but I’m not going to worry at all, it is close to impossible to buy the raw materials without some sorts of licenses.
Re: Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes
#515Talk about your free publicity!
Hope all you Rogan haters love Rogan because this is how you get more of him. Congrats!
Re: Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes
#516US is more than China now.
Re: Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes
#517I think I speak for the majority of people here. Before the Spotify deal, you would just see couple of Joe Rogan clips on YouTube and you have sat through maybe 3-4 entire podcasts. You don't care much about MMA or you don't think comedians are that important/hypeworthy as the JRE fandom would claim. After the Spotify deal you just slowly stopped even seeing the clips because for some reason you just don't care to se…
When I heard of JRE many years ago, I said to myself, "do I care to hear the endless opinions of the former host of Fear Factor? Nope." And that was that, never even decided to give it a try with so much other potential content available.
So for you the only people worth paying attention to are those who just have just jumped into well paid meaningful jobs and never had to work their way up from the bottom.
Worked at Mcdonalds.. not worth listening to, took a job as a cleaner out of school... don't waste my time. Only people with prestigious employment histories are worth the time of day.
Re: Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes
#518I fail to see how anyone can seriously listen to Joe Rogan. He has a circus of quacks and conspiracy theorists on the show and when he does occasionally have a legitimate scientist he can barely muster any response beyond “wow that blows my mind”
Watch his interviews with Elon Musk, Billy Corgan, Bob Saget, Edward Snowden, Bob Lazar, Bernie Sanders, etc.
That is why we are listening to him.
Re: Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes
#519I fail to see how anyone can seriously listen to Joe Rogan. He has a circus of quacks and conspiracy theorists on the show and when he does occasionally have a legitimate scientist he can barely muster any response beyond “wow that blows my mind”
So you extrapolate from your own preference to 'anyone'.that s by definition many things that i m not allowed to mention here
Re: Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes
#520I’m struggling to have sympathy with anyone involved in this. Podcasting has always felt like a resurgence of the “original web” spirit to me: anyone can upload, anywhere. All you need is an RSS feed and anyone can subscribe. Then Spotify came busting in and decided that the open podcasting platform is obsolete and paid Joe Rogan $100 million for exclusive distribution of his content. So they’ve dug their own grave h…
Spotify competing with YouTube isn't the root problem. The people calling for censorship are the problem. This is the latest attack in an ongoing war on free speech. We are losing our freedoms. Today it's Joe Rogan's speech tomorrow it's yours.
No, people making millions out of misinformation is the problem. They have learned to appeal to primitive instincts and are making their fortunes out of that.
Attempts are curtailing the spread of dangerous misinformation wouldn't happen without the dangerous misinformation first.
Rather than being mad for "people calling for censorship", maybe you should be mad for people making a profit of deaths, or the general anti-science, anti-education culture that consumes and amplifies it.