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Spotify Has Officially Become The Battleground For Big Tech's Censorship Civil War
For many businesses, cancel culture becomes about the economics of protecting themselves. But Spotify needs to ask itself at the end of the day: are they the battleground for something much bigger?
January 29, 2022 | By Quoth the Raven
Far be it for me to be sensationalist, but it looks like Spotify has become the official venue where the big tech censorship civil war is about to take place.
Or, perhaps where it has already started.
Spotify has been in the news over the past few weeks because it has been home to "controversial" podcast host Joe Rogan. And let me tell you, "controversial" isn't what it used to be.
Nowadays, Rogan is considered "controversial" because he's someone that - - allows individuals to speak their opinions and listens to both sides of the story while presenting a spectrum of takes on political and social issues that runs the gamut and may not conform to the mainstream narrative or “the science".
It was only days ago that I wrote about how I thought Rogan would reshape the mainstream media landscape single-handedly and how his "controversial" style of open-minded discussion may benefit both political parties in the upcoming presidential election, should they be wise enough to adopt it.
This week, the decrepit clutches of cancel culture continued their "war" against Rogan (read: open minded discussion) in the form of 76 year old aging rock star Neil Young, who threatened to pull his catalog of music - which he doesn't even fully own the rights to - from Spotify as a result of what he calls "misinformation" being presented on Rogan's show.
Now that we've redefined "controversial" as "open minded discussion", it's also crucial we redefine "misinformation". Nowadays, "misinformation" means any utterance of thoughts that weren't handed down directly from Dr. Anthony Fauci, the CDC, the mainstream media or global elites and central planners.
In response to Young's temper tantrum this week, Spotify did precisely nothing and, at Young's request, deftly pulled the artist's music from their platform.
Perhaps feeling defeated by Spotify's common sense decision, or perhaps motivated by the perverse amount of press Young received for his "declaration against misinformation", a second septuagenarian former rocker, 78 year old Joni Mitchell, also joined the fray and threatened to pull her music from Spotify, as well.
As her reasoning for the ultimatum, Mitchell claimed that "irresponsible people are spreading lies". At first, I thought maybe she had looked back on the "official" declarations that cloth masks would work against the virus, vaccinations would end Covid altogether and that ivermectin was nothing more than veterinary horse paste. Instead, it turns out she, too, was referring to Rogan's podcast.
Please go to QTR's Fringe Finance to read more.
January 29, 2022 | By Quoth the Raven
Far be it for me to be sensationalist, but it looks like Spotify has become the official venue where the big tech censorship civil war is about to take place.
Or, perhaps where it has already started.
Spotify has been in the news over the past few weeks because it has been home to "controversial" podcast host Joe Rogan. And let me tell you, "controversial" isn't what it used to be.
Nowadays, Rogan is considered "controversial" because he's someone that -
It was only days ago that I wrote about how I thought Rogan would reshape the mainstream media landscape single-handedly and how his "controversial" style of open-minded discussion may benefit both political parties in the upcoming presidential election, should they be wise enough to adopt it.
This week, the decrepit clutches of cancel culture continued their "war" against Rogan (read: open minded discussion) in the form of 76 year old aging rock star Neil Young, who threatened to pull his catalog of music - which he doesn't even fully own the rights to - from Spotify as a result of what he calls "misinformation" being presented on Rogan's show.
Photo: The Verge
Now that we've redefined "controversial" as "open minded discussion", it's also crucial we redefine "misinformation". Nowadays, "misinformation" means any utterance of thoughts that weren't handed down directly from Dr. Anthony Fauci, the CDC, the mainstream media or global elites and central planners.
In response to Young's temper tantrum this week, Spotify did precisely nothing and, at Young's request, deftly pulled the artist's music from their platform.
Perhaps feeling defeated by Spotify's common sense decision, or perhaps motivated by the perverse amount of press Young received for his "declaration against misinformation", a second septuagenarian former rocker, 78 year old Joni Mitchell, also joined the fray and threatened to pull her music from Spotify, as well.
As her reasoning for the ultimatum, Mitchell claimed that "irresponsible people are spreading lies". At first, I thought maybe she had looked back on the "official" declarations that cloth masks would work against the virus, vaccinations would end Covid altogether and that ivermectin was nothing more than veterinary horse paste. Instead, it turns out she, too, was referring to Rogan's podcast.
Please go to QTR's Fringe Finance to read more.
News update for 30 January 2022:
Joni Mitchell Is Joining Neil Young In Taking A Stand Against Spotify Over Joe Rogan’s Vaccine Misinformation
Joni Mitchell joins Neil Young, pulls her music from Spotify over vaccine misinformation
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