[The Hill] Spotify sides with Joe Rogan after Neil Young ultimatum

Being open minded should never be shut down

If a spurs fan thinks Robinson is better than Hakeem you want to know his logic
And then show him the 1995 video

 

I can tell all of you who aren’t cheap suckers and like high quality audio
amazon music is the place to be

 

Not sure if this has been said yet, but the problem isn't Rogan or Spotify or his guests or Neil Young or Joni Mitchell, it's all the ****ing morons who believe everything they hear (as long as it's what they want to hear) and give more credence to some white guy ranting in a pickup truck than to thousands and thousands of experts in the field.

The Drive By Truckers saw it coming

Astrophysics at our fingertips
And we're standing at the summit
And some man with a joystick
Lands a rocket on a comet
We're living in an age
Where limitations are forgotten
The outer edges move and dazzle us
But the core is something rotten
And we're standing on the precipice
Of prejudice and fear
We trust science just as long
As it tells us what we want to hear
We want our truths all fair and balanced
As long as our notions lie within it
There's no sunlight in our ass'
And our heads are stuck up in it

 

Is changing algorithms to not promote podcasts peddling misinformation also censorship?

 

I am a Spotify subscriber and the thought of canceling my membership never crossed my mind. I don't think many people over a very small trickle and passionate Neil Young groupies are considering canceling their subscription. None of this had to do with censorship or even cancel culture. It's just a few people (Young & Mitchell) having a conniption about some of the guests on Joe Rogan's podcast. Honestly it's more PR than anything else.

To me, it's good that people are made aware that Joe Rogan has guests on the show that spread misinformation. He should be called out on that given his influence and power. People act like pushing back on power is somehow a bad thing. It's not. What would be bad is Rogan's show being canceled for it. But putting pressure on him to select more truthful guests or at the very least show the other perspective / question his guests more is a very good thing.

I feel this gets lost in the whole polarization of this debate into a censorship/cancel culture issue, which at its core it's not. The actions of Young had more impact than trying to hurt Spotify that gets lost. Awareness and pressure are useful tools that go far beyond trying to cancel someone even if that might have been the original intent.

 

I agree with Stewart and think Neil Young is flawed in his approach, but am simply saying his actions unwittingly had a positive impact in this case.

What Neil Young should have done...well, that's up to him. It's his free speech just as much as it is Joe Rogan's to put put bad guests. If one wants to criticize Young, you have to criticize Rogan as well. Either they have the right to express themselves or they don't. And everyone is free to criticize their actions.

But I don't like that somehow it becomes a censorship / cancel culture debate when no one is being censored or canceled.

 

I love his main point there. But... great blasts for Tucker Carlson (the "confusion enema" expression) and Eric Clapton included gratis.

 

We are at our best when we can have fun. So love this.

 

I saw that, I don't see how that relates to censorship or cancel culture. Unless you mean that Neil Young is canceling himself?

 

It's strange that this is being discussed in relation to censorship, when there is plenty of actual censorship happening in regards to supposed anti-CRT and PC groups.

 

Legacy Media is getting their ass handed to them

Spotify paid Joe 100 mill cause he's dominating these losers and their loser viewers and the losers who keep reposting their legacy news tweets

 

Spotify CEO Admits He Finds Some Of Joe Rogan's Content 'Very Offensive'

Daniel Ek confessed that achieving the streaming service's ambitions means having content
"that many of us may not be proud to be associated with."
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fwiw,

the 4-yr old public co is still a huge money-losing proposition; to say that its stock price has plummeted would be a gross understatement.
from an all-time high of ~$380 (in Feb 2021) the stock price has tanked to ~$155 3 days ago, a ~~60% drop in a year.​

 

Legacy Media and Chinese trolls love CNN and FOX news, don't want Podcasters winning

but Podcasters are beating them down like dogs