Rogan should not be given unfettered access to Spotify’s more than 400 million users is not censorship, as some have suggested. “Spotify does not exist in a vacuum, and the decisions it makes about what content it hosts have consequences. That, like the idea that living in an off-the-grid yurt frees one from the demands, responsibilities and complicities of human society, is an illusion.”Ĥ. They want free speech to exist in a vacuum, free from context, free from criticism. “Too many people believe that the right to free speech means the right to say whatever they want, wherever, whenever, on whatever platform they choose, without consequence. We are expressing our taste and moral discernment, and saying what we find acceptable and what we do not.”ģ. When we say, as a society, that bigotry and misinformation are unacceptable, and that people who espouse those ideas don’t deserve access to significant platforms, that’s curation. When we are not free to express ourselves, when we can be thrown in jail or even lose our lives for speaking freely, that is censorship. There’s a difference between censorship and curation. And because I am a writer, I know that language matters. Gay also makes the point that we DON’T live in a vacuum, we are all in it together and we have to behave accordingly.Ģ. With a large audience comes a responsibility to the truth, things you might get away with saying amongst your friends don’t pass muster if they’re widely disseminated.Īnd Ms. So, what does writer Roxane Gay have to say?ġ. Should they be able to have a platform on Spotify? But the years keep passing, they’re constantly making new people, it turns out we have to educate young people, which is why misinformation is such a huge problem. You think if you know something, everybody else does too. If you’re not horrified by this, you’re an anti-Semite. And more than 10 percent believed that Jews actually caused the Holocaust.” “According to a nationwide survey of millennials and Gen Z conducted in 2020 by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (), more than 60 percent of respondents were unaware that six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust and nearly half could not name a single Nazi death camp. Davidson’s letter about Whoopi to the aforementioned “Times”: Joe Rogan spreads misinformation and he escapes unscathed. Whoopi Goldberg mischaracterizes the Holocaust, and she’s off the air for two weeks. I certainly have, but this is not what we’re talking about, the fact that even a high percentage of the show might not be inflammatory, that does not mean he gets a pass on the rest of it. Just like all the people saying one has to listen to Joe Rogan. And that is possible, but you’d have to read the “Times” to form an opinion. Despite quoting from the “New York Times” ad infinitum, they denigrate it and constantly tell YOU not to read it, that it’s untrustworthy hogwash. Same with the Op-Ed pages of the “Wall Street Journal.” But Carlson and his ilk have poisoned the water. But I want to know what they are thinking, I don’t want to live in a bubble, I want to have context.įurthermore, they sometimes say something, even Tucker Carlson, that makes me think, that stimulates me to do more research. Do I agree with everything they have to say? No. And that’s fine, no one can know everything, but you don’t want to live in an echo chamber. I’d proffer that most people defending Joe Rogan have no idea who these two people are. Felice told me Scott Galloway took his podcast down from Spotify, and he pointed to Roxane Gay’s opinion piece in the “Times” as an explanation.
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