the popular streaming service is adding
the warning in an attempt to curb recent
calls to censor and remove joe rogan who
they have a 100 million dollar
multi-year deal with the popular host of
the joe rogan experience has faced
growing criticism after interviews with
skeptics of the covid19 vaccines
backlash began earlier this month when
nearly 300 medical professionals wrote
an open letter requesting for the
podcast to be removed and now music
artists such as neil young and joni
mitchell taking their songs off the
platform in protest prince harry and
meghan markle who also have a lucrative
deal with spotify are also pressuring
the company rogan breaking his silence
on the cancel campaign just yesterday
the problem i have with the term
misinformation especially today is that
many of the things that we thought of as
misinformation just a short while ago
are now accepted as fact i'm interested
in telling the truth i'm interested in
finding out what the truth is and i'm
interested in having interesting
conversations with people
that have differing opinions
harris i mean he makes a compelling
point he merely wants to get a different
opinion and he's entitled to do that
your thoughts well look i i look at this
the same way that twitter sticks a
sticker on my stuff when i put out true
polling or or the things that are
actually happening right right as a
journalist and they just don't like the
fact that oh yeah you mean there's an
investigation into and they're looking
at hunter biden i mean that they'll take
you down they'll sticker you they'll
cancel you i i wonder if this isn't the
same
road that spotify is now willing to walk
down because it will cost them
it will cost them more than the the
people who leave the platform you know
one of my daughters asked me who neil
young was and of course you know i used
to live in minnesota so i was like oh
you know
and then i suddenly realized her eyes
were glazed over she just knew
that things were changing because she
saw it on her phone my 15 year old and
she said well why would they try to keep
one guy's questions out mom isn't that
what you do crickets because yeah
i mean i ask questions now i'm not joe
rogan and he's not me don't get it
confused we do different things
but we bring up some topics that are
considered to be
those things that people are not always
comfortable with us asking about to
spotify have the kind of fact-checking
foundation or history to be able to say
what is informational and what isn't
that would be my question to them you
know they want to sticker me for asking
that
we'll wait
right and we've seen twitter try to go
into the fact-checking realm it hasn't
really worked out well there's a lot of
total disparities including this joey
joe rogan
the most powerful part of his 10-minute
response to all of this was this portion
where he talked about so-called
misinformation let's listen
eight months ago if you said if you get
vaccinated you can still catch covid and
you can still spread covid
you would be removed from social media
they would they would ban you from
certain platforms
now that's accepted as fact if you said
i don't think cloth masks work you would
be banned from social media now that's
openly repeatedly stated on cnn if you
said i think it's possible that kovid19
came from a lab you'd be banned from
many social media platforms now that's
on the cover of newsweek
yeah joey that's the point you would be
banned for saying all these things that
are now accepted as fact
yeah real quick in the words of the
greatest southern rock man of all time i
just hope neil young remembers a
southern man doesn't need him around
anyhow and i think that goes for most
americans what neil young has done
he's taken himself absolutely i mean if
you can't tell by the way i'm dressed
where i'm from i mean come on but listen
neil young is taking himself out of the
conversation instead of saying hey joe
rogan let me come on your podcast as
someone who brings my own audience and
talk to you about why i take issue with
that he's chosen to step out of the
conversation by taking himself off of
spotify he just ensures more people have
no clue who he is this is an antiquated
rock star who had a chance to be
relevant again not by being a part of a
conversation but by protesting in a way
that is cowardice in my opinion that
doesn't move you anywhere that doesn't
move the conversation listen i take the
doctors that go on the joe rogan podcast
with the same grain of salt as i take
the people that pontificate on twitter
about this knowledge they do or don't
have and i say grain of salt what i mean
is part of the conversation it's a
puzzle it's a piece of the puzzle it's
up to me and the doctor i trust the one
doctor i trust the one i go to to decide
what's best for me that's a very
american thing and i think that is all
that joe rogan has ever advocated for
nothing about joe rogan's podcast leads
me to believe he's against any of these
things but what he is for that scares
people to death is critical thinking and
independent thinking by americans
exercising their freedom and anyone who
would advocate to take those podcasts
down are absolutely scared but they're
scared of the truth not lining up with
their own moral vindication and i'll
tell you this
what joe bo what um joe rogan's apology
is that was a compromise between him and
spotify that's that's what this is this
the idea that joe rogan will will put
out a statement and allow spotify to put
this tag on there that's because his
audience is too big for them to lose him
and the squeaky wheel gets the grease
the neil youngs of the world are being
louder but joe rogan's audience is more
effective and this is the compromise
they found as far as that goes i don't
have a problem with it but i hate that
joe rogan had to do anything in response
to doing his job
yeah joey jones for the win this morning
you are winning all kinds of points by
one citing leonard skynyrd my husband
texted me during the sound bite tell
joey jones i love his camo jacket you're
just bringing it today leslie you know
who's not bringing it
who's not bringing it is a guy named
prince harry let's take a listen to this
flashback
i don't want to start sort of going down
the first memory route because that's a
huge subject and one of which i don't
understand because i've only been in a
short period of time but you can find a
loophole in anything laws were created
to protect people
right yeah that's how i see it i got so
much i want to say about the first
amendment
i still don't understand it but it is
bonkers of course they don't understand
it they wanted to own us so right
he has concerns about this spotify and
this is the guy who's anti-first
amendment leslie
i you know what i'm i'm probably going
to get cancelled by the way before i
come on tv and after i'm done people
tell me fox should fire me on a daily
basis check out my twitter feed so
harris i feel your i feel i feel your
pain so here's the thing okay
i don't really listen i don't really
listen to anything that harry and megan
say so sorry uh since they jumped the
pond and won't let the babies see uh
grandma it bothers me just a bit but
that aside as as as a talk show host as
a talk show host for over 30 years i
have an opinion on this okay um i have
had the opportunity to interview some uh
really uncomfortable people uh holocaust
deniers grand wizards of the kkk and i
made the decision not to one because i'd
probably get fired at that one point on
the radio stations i worked at but
another because i always felt i had a
responsibility that my listeners could
be unlike joey because you did a great
thing you said i take it with a grain of
salt so do i but some people don't and
therein lies the danger
neil young joni mitchell and possibly
foo fighters and other artists have a
right to put their music on whatever
platform they want i don't like
censorship but i also don't like
information that could be dangerous if
people don't take it for what it is an
alternative just talking about it
my first assignment as a journalist at
wnct in greenville north carolina was to
go that first week to a kkk rally and
people actually talked with me which
nobody in my newsroom would believe that
that would have happened i i'm glad i
did those interviews
we're americans we aren't always going
to think the same maybe something in the
exchange of those conversations would
bring forth even better information and
conversations you can't cut it off at
the point where you think people aren't
grown enough to hear it or you don't
like it
did you hear what i said i i went to a
rally in this scandal
right people gave me interviews
like yeah but the kkk weren't giving you
medical advice harris they weren't
giving the general public no they were
giving me some advice
and that certainly involved my health
but i hung in there and those interviews
were watched that's all i'm saying i i
don't i don't think that those should be
stickered either of course i'm so old
now in my career that you know they
can't really sticker them if they can
find them
i got to tell you i'm with i'm with
harris on this argument but emily why is
it that the censorship only cuts one way
always you know where was the censorship
over the false russia story that was
misinformation you know president trump
going to saint john's church and gassing
and pummeling protesters that was not
truthful inspector general said that or
uh you know bounties on the heads of
troops in afghanistan that was not
truthful truthful where is the
censorship in the misinformation labels
when it goes in the other direction
because the political culture of the far
left has allowed them to think that they
can get away with censorship but without
being labeled as such right let's go
back and look at their playbook it first
started with hate speech right so they
falsely argue that it's unconstitutional
that it's not constitutionally protected
this hate speech something they start
trying to put everyone into it all these
comments and then it sort of it
graduates it gets bigger and now it's
just information that makes them feel
uncomfortable and now the label is
disinformation and misinformation and
the thing about it that glenn greenwald
in part argues is that that term has a
lot of elasticity right it's like the
term terrorism it's like the term
pornography where there's a lot of room
for interpretation and so these guys in
their echo chambers can continue getting
away with dumping a whole bunch of stuff
into it and they have created that
culture which is that they are free to
cancel to fire to terminate to censor
but without being called out for what it
is which is indeed censorship i just
heard this morning by the way an ad for
hulu that a show joe rogan is on uh that
explores the intersect of media and
privacy and more which i find ironic so
he's not going anywhere and just to
throw my head in the ring of everyone's
anecdotes you know as president of the
federalist society in law school a long
time ago in the early 2000s my role
there on campus was to bring the other
side so whenever we had a presentation
we got to turn it into a debate and i
got to bring the other side and back
then it was actually acceptable right
that was discourse that was the
conversation you all have mentioned that
apparently neil young and the like are
just afraid about because they're going
down that black hole of complete
extinguishment
the great debate yeah so i can tell you
if spotify has to choose between joe
rogan and harry and megan go with joe
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