all right let's talk a little bit about
this uh yesterday you know what's going
on with joe rogan uh also a number of
different artists are pulling their
music from uh spotify because uh they
feel like he should not be allowed to be
there uh yesterday let's see graham nash
and india ari now pulling their music
neil young has pulled his uh
uh now interesting uh fans of taylor
swift are being urged
are urging taylor swift to pull her
music from spotify they've also noted
madonna and adele as well
if they pulled their music that would be
something yeah there's a difference
between neil young and joni mitchell and
taylor swift and
and those people but the reason this is
happening of course is because some of
these celebrities feel like joe rogan
shouldn't be on spotify because they're
accusing him of coven misinformation for
highlighting people with different
perspectives and uh spotify responded by
saying okay any podcast that talks about
covet we're going to put a disclaimer on
it white house press secretary jensocki
was asked about this yesterday here's
what she had to say
disclaimer it's a positive step but we
want every platform to continue doing
more to call out misinformation
disinformation while also uplifting
accurate information our hope is that
all major tech platforms and all major
news sources for that matter be
responsible and be vigilant to ensure
the american people have access to
accurate information on something as
significant as covid19 that certainly
includes spotify
so what is misinformation as joe rogan
brilliantly pointed out on sunday when
he just grabbed his iphone and talked in
his garage or talked in his backyard he
said is it that the
genesis of the pandemic came from a lab
uh that used to bring a uh get you
banned from youtube or twitter now it's
pretty much conventional wisdom how
about the fact that uh the vaccine is
supposed to prevent you from getting
this virus and you could take your mask
off that was considered misinformation
now it's basically fact that we're all
living with how about the fact that the
mass that you put on are supposed to be
effective and how about the fact that
now on the cover of uh newsweek uh it's
basically face decorations how about the
fact that we just actually just read to
you that johns hopkins that fly-by-night
organization that is fully funded by
this guy named mike bloomberg billions
of dollars every week they say that
lockdown shutdowns and the staying out
of school and being locked in your house
is actually worse for you than before
now if i said that eight months ago you
probably would have got banned or
suspended from social media so what joe
rogan's doing is asking questions and
the arrogance of the bite administration
is how dare you contradict what our cdc
changes in flip-flops all the time will
we consider the law of the land when it
comes to this pandemic when you consider
science needs to be questions and all
he's doing is asking questions and he
humbly said yeah if you want me to put
somebody who disagrees with a someone
who feels a certain way when it comes to
pandemic i'll start doing that but for
you to ask for more artists to quit
for people out there to ask more artists
to jump out of spotify and for you to
ask him to spotify to crack down on
their number one guy who all he does is
ask questions because if you ask taylor
swift and madonna and adele if you ask
them to leave no one cares about graham
nash and neil young you know if you're
70 years old and you used to listen to
your albums go ahead i don't think
that'll stop you but if you start asking
the pop artists now
prepare for those pop artists to lose 50
of their audience because you're asking
them to take a side now on music because
a guy asks questions of a doctor with
impeccable credentials that may have a
differing opinion from your scared to
death cdc director who sits there in her
lab on an iphone and continues to tell
us things that ended up being wrong well
look spotify is a private business they
can do whatever they want to do
we've been telling you that that's what
goes on on facebook that's what goes on
on twitter as well
interestingly enough over the last
couple over the last week when the the
initial artists
of neil young and joni mitchell started
pulling their music
their stock price tanked it wasn't until
joe rogan essentially apologized and
said look i'll be more balanced that it
has come back up
ultimately it is a business and they've
got to decide what is what you know it
and the the white house said you know
uh essentially social media needs to be
more vigilant but i do not remember the
white house calling out uh justice uh
sotomayor about the misinformation or
disinformation that a hundred thousand
kids were really super sick in critical
condition because of covet in the united
states and a lot of them were on
ventilators i don't remember her getting
slapped with a disclaimer anywhere yeah
this is you're watching authoritarian
authoritarianism form and it never opens
the door and announces itself it always
starts off small and it always starts
off the same way where it you feel
ostracized for saying something that the
ruling class doesn't like you're banned
from social media people pressure you to
shut up we've seen it happen in other
points in history before and it's never
a good thing that's exactly what's
happening with joe rogan right now i
hope it goes away this time i do love
what joe rogan said um
what on his instagram post when he
addressed the situation because he said
listen
you're not gonna silence me as a matter
of fact the way i'm gonna handle this is
with more speech i'm still gonna have uh
people on the podcast that i find
interesting and have different points of
view and then maybe i'll balance it out
with somebody who's more mainstream and
then he went on to praise neil young and
say that he was a fan of his
you catch more flies with honey than
vinegar and that's exactly what he's
doing but this is a slippery slope that
we're going down right now for sure it's
a private business but it's been
affected by the federal government and
that's the issue it's not spotify
against youtube it's spotify against
president biden and his administration
that's a scary thing