BOP
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"Oh, god, Mr. Weinstein, it's so big, and I really need this movie!"When did Susan Sarandon sing .?
Canceling Rogan
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The censoring of Joe Rogan is a tactic right out of old Soviet Union
White House press secretary Jen Psaki’s statement on Tuesday, directing Big Tech and Spotify to do “more” to eradicate alleged COVID “misinformation” on the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, suggests that the future of the First Amendment is bleak. A representative of a ruling party dictating to a private company what content is “accurate” and what is not, is a clear sign that the US government has embraced censorship.
Just like the Soviets, the benevolent authoritarians want to “protect” you from the bad influence of the Rogan type “rogues.” Consider that the Rogan interview deemed wrongheaded by America’s elites was not with some charlatan but with a medical doctor, a clinician, Dr. Robert Malone. Malone’s thought crime is that he doesn’t sing in unison with the “The Science” espoused by Tony Fauci, who has been stood up as the COVID Minister of Propaganda whose every word must be accepted as truth.
Spotify Appears To Take New Action Against Joe Rogan
“The apparent removal of the episodes, all of which were recorded years before the pandemic began, was spotted by JREMissing,” CNET reported. “The fan-made website uses Spotify’s API to compare available episodes to a database of all episodes recorded.”
Gizmodo reported that it “manually checked” JREMissing’s claim that the episodes had been removed and “confirmed the site’s assessment.”
The move comes after Spotify CEO Daniel Ek reportedly told employees on Wednesday that the platform does not have editorial discretion over Joe Rogan’s #1-rated podcast. The Los Angeles Times reported that the company does not screen his guest list and only takes action after episodes are published.
The Mob Keeps Coming To Silence Joe Rogan. But Joe Rogan Is Bigger Than The Mob, If He Recognizes It Or Not.
And the campaign to delegitimize and shut up Rogan has been relentless, mostly because of his reach, which is an estimated 11 million listeners per podcast.
Cable news has deceivingly framed the host as a dumb jock who takes “horse dewormer,” out-of-their-prime musicians have pulled their music from Spotify demanding Rogan’s deplatforming, CNN’s Brian Stelter has fulfilled his obligatory smears under the guise of Keeping The Media Accountable, accusations of murder have been flippantly hurled, and the White House has all but explicitly called for Rogan to be censored.
But Rogan is bigger than the mob — whether he recognizes it or not.
Not a single one of Rogan’s listeners will abandon him over the smears. They’ve spent hours and hours with the host and know he’s a decent, earnest guy who is genuinely interested in other people’s experiences and their knowledge. He wants to find truth, he wants to learn, and he wants to have fun. That’s it.
His massive audience will follow him wherever he goes. It doesn’t matter if Spotify deplatforms him, which is increasingly looking to be on the horizon.
Bare-ya-cuda
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My thought was does anyone who actually listens to Neil young use Spotify.
Joe Rogan and the N-Word
Be that as it may, while Rogan should have thought twice before using the word, it is interesting that the issue has suddenly come to light now. How long have people been metaphorically torching one another at the stake over racism? In the news, sports, academia, and entertainment one person or another has been canceled time and again for far lesser offenses, even those committed by accident or in a moment of careless thought. In a nation of people with their racism detectors set at the highest levels, we are just now discovering that Rogan used the N-word? There was plenty of time to unearth those nuggets.
You know why. It was because it was convenient. Rogan had a differing opinion about addressing COVID-19, making him a de facto racist. All that was needed was some evidence. Rogan’s use of that word, no matter the context, is not the heart of the issue. The heart of the issue is that he was creating a potentially credible threat to the groupthink and the acceptable message and the power structure. One wonders if these comments would have ever resurfaced had Rogan toed the party line. Either the comments of everyone of note are being cataloged to be used at need or there is a cadre of people who take it upon themselves or are designated to mine for the dirt when the time is right, in which case no one is safe.
Well Rocky Horror, for one.When did Susan Sarandon sing .?
It should be plain enough that if the President or anyone in government moves to silence or censor anyone, it is a clear violation of the First Amendment.
There can be those circumstances where it is allowed - but that’s all been argued in court and they’re few and far between.
I do think that when there exists social media that dominates a niche of the market, they’re also subject to similar constraints. You can’t have ideas squelched because a few people have the ability to silence them.
There can be those circumstances where it is allowed - but that’s all been argued in court and they’re few and far between.
I do think that when there exists social media that dominates a niche of the market, they’re also subject to similar constraints. You can’t have ideas squelched because a few people have the ability to silence them.
BOP
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For saying it, or for quoting someone who said it (which is what I heard)?
Man Being Devoured By Hungry Sharks Tries Apologizing To Them
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Man Being Devoured By Hungry Sharks Tries Apologizing To Them
PACIFIC—According to sources, a local man was devoured by several hungry Great White Sharks off the coast of California today after several failed attempts to calm down the murderous creatures by apologizing to them.
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BOP
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He also apologized for another story he told on the podcast that went viral, where he was in an all-Black neighborhood in Philadelphia on his way to see the movie Planet of the Apes. He joked that it felt like he was in Africa, in his words to “make the story entertaining” by describing the neighborhood, “it’s like we’re in Planet of the Apes.” He again admitted to how “bad” the story made him sound and restated that it was not a racist story to him.
I've been in some pretty dicey parts of the world, and I've been in Philly. I remember this one area of Germantown where it was night-and-day, the difference. On one side of the street, it was gentrified and fairly upscale, and literally on the other side of the street, it looked like a war zone in a 3rd world sh*thole. Rogan isn't wrong. Poorly worded, yeah, but not wrong, other than his comparison didn't go far enough. War zone, not Planet of the Apes.
I've been in some pretty dicey parts of the world, and I've been in Philly. I remember this one area of Germantown where it was night-and-day, the difference. On one side of the street, it was gentrified and fairly upscale, and literally on the other side of the street, it looked like a war zone in a 3rd world sh*thole. Rogan isn't wrong. Poorly worded, yeah, but not wrong, other than his comparison didn't go far enough. War zone, not Planet of the Apes.
Clem72
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Think I have told this story before, but I was doing a job in Atlanta fixing a flooded network facility around 2001/2002 and riding the MARTA train back to the hotel with some co-workers. The train was basically all black people except for the three of us, though I hadn't noticed at the time. My coworkers were picking the dust/dirt out of each other's hair and I mentioned that they looked like a couple of monkeys picking lice off of each other. Then I heard a guy on the far side of the train whisper "that mother****er just say bunch of monkeys" and to cut that off quickly I said out loud "I was talking about my friends here picking at each others hair". I then heard another whisper "damn, he got good hearin too".
Yang does a lot of back tracking and apologizing.
MSNBC host on Joe Rogan controversy: 'This isn't about silencing anyone'
"I found the letter problematic," New York Times opinion writer and podcast host Kara Swisher said on MSNBC. "The word 'silencing' and cancel culture were all throughout it as if there to create a false narrative here. It’s a simple matter of, they didn’t really listen to what he was doing, and they have some responsibility for it. They don’t think they have very much, and now they’re caught in a mess. It’s sort of just a sloppy mess as far as I can tell. It sounds like they weren’t listening to Joe Rogan, is my take."
"To that very point, now using this, ‘silencing Joe Rogan’ … Isn’t that meant to deepen this cultural divide and trigger people?" Ruhle asked. "Nobody is getting silenced, right? They can have a code of conduct that says, 'Here are some rules you need to adhere to and furthermore, let's just do some fact-checking, let’s correct falsehoods.' I have to make corrections all the time. This isn’t about silencing anyone."
However, calls to censor or de-platform Rogan have been growing for weeks. Musician Neil Young removed his music from Spotify after giving the streaming service an ultimatum to take action on his COVID-19 "misinformation," with others like Joni Mitchell following suit.
Left-wing Washington Post columnist Margaret Sullivan blamed Rogan for the death of a former colleague from COVID-19, although she said she didn't know if her late friend listened to the podcast, and liberal CNN anchor Jim Acosta suggested this weekend Rogan should be fired after playing the montage of Rogan's past use of the "n-word." on the show.
Right so when washed up artists say
Me or Rogan
They are not trying to have Rogan silenced, by getting him removed from Spotify
OVER an OPINION about what is and is NOT MisInformation about Covid