Please elaborate, if you care to.
Regards.
It was actually James Blunt who did that, he’s a funny guy!
James Blunt jokes he will release new music on Spotify in Rogan protest | James Blunt | The Guardian
I’m stunned by how many people are willing to shut people up who don’t think in lock step with their tribe. It’s like we’ve been assimilated.
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i.e. Nothing has changed with the human race.
Except now we gots the interwebs.
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This is a problem on both sides of the political spectrum.
But the issue with Joe Rogan and Spotify is not about political correctness or a mere difference in view.
The concern is with false claims and fake information which is harmful to others, whether directly stated by Mr. Rogan himself or by his guests for whom he provides a platform.
Edit: I am being careful to identify the issue while avoiding the argument as to what is true or not. Whether you agree with Mr. Rogan and his guests or not does not matter to the discussion as to whether Mr. Young and Ms. Mitchell are approaching this in a productive fashion.
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And he not only is “on” the platform of Spotify, they are paying him hundreds of millions of dollars for the exclusive rights to carry his dangerous misinformation.
(At the same time, the artists, whose music we stream, are paid micro-pennies.)
We’re all to blame! aaaaaarrrrrggggghhhhhhh
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Newly released high def slow-mo video of the Tic Tacs reveal a cube shape! They are in actual fact the Borg. Still unreleased (you heard it here first!)…they’ve been here for a thousand years.
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That’s exactly the same for me, i have no problem with different view on anything, it’s disinformation that I go up against.
Lies have nothing to do with opinion, they’re stated with intent to do harm or selfishly benefit the teller at the expense of the listener. It has nothing to do with anyones opinion.
Unfortunately the world is being overrun with disinformation. Freedom of speech has been weaponised very successfully and a lot of the worlds troubles these days are down to those lies.
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I don’t mind be a Borg, as long as I don’t get fitted with digital hearing.
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The shades are stylin’ though😝
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True. I can certainly disagree. Which I do. I think he completely overlooks the fact that most people can’t avoid exposure from the public or coworkers at work. And most of us must work. And for-profit just-in-time health care “inventory” is totally inadequate for confronting a crisis.
Mostly I enjoy Rogan’s discussions with astrophysicist types like Brian Cox. And comedians.
And I think he should have vetted the Frontline Doctors group of wackos.
But I will say that this whole Spotify backlash actually may have me coming around more towards his view on canceling. Alex Jones is easy. But where do we draw the line of who can speak their mind or ask questions.
And of course medical establishment consensus is never wrong. How did that whole low fat, seed oils because we don’t want bad cholesterol, and all carbs are carbs thing work out. It was accepted medical wisdom for decades. Not that pharmaceutical billions in statins might have anything to do with it. Check out a Dr. Nadir Ali lecture sometime.
I have been an administrative law judge deciding workers’ compensation cases for 25 years. I say that only to say this: 90% of the cases that go to trial do so because there is a difference of medical opinion. In every one of them, I hear or read transcripts of expert medical testimony. Thousands and thousands. Are the testifying doctors on one side or the other knowingly lying in each instance, or is there a sincere difference of opinion? I have to say the latter. Mostly. Often it is a sincere difference in philosophy. Some physicians still don’t believe carpal tunnel syndrome is a thing at all, just tendonitis. Some just plain don’t believe overuse of one limb because the other is injured can cause injury to the uninjured limb. Some seem to sincerely believe that if they can’t see something on an MRI, the patient is making up their back pain, and there is no restriction against returning to any type of heavy work. If the medical issue was an absolute certainty, no question about it, there would be no hearing. Proof is by a preponderance. And medical understanding and consensus changes over time. I guess I just have trouble with deciding something is so medically certain that no one can say different. We can all decide credibility of witnesses and where the preponderance lies.
I do watch Rachel Maddow, so I’m ok, - really. When I want to get really wild, I pull out some Chomsky.
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We should have the wherewithal to recognize falsities, intentional or not on both sides of any issue.
And Young and Mitchell should be free to do as they please with their music, which I have loved for decades.
That would be nice, but I ain’t holding my breath on that one.
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Good cause holding your breath is bad, Beef.
See what I did there? bad, Beef?
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I turn blue. And that makes me sad. I already have somewhat reduced lung function as it is. And the air is thin up here on the high plains for a midwestern boy.
Solve this for me, Beef. Is it bad form to hit the little heart for statements like “I turn blue” and “reduced lung function”? I mean, those things surely don’t make one happy. I’m not pro-reduced lung function, ya know?
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I regularly experience this same conundrum.
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That’s because you and I are b-r-i-l-l-i-a-n-t, sir. 
Quick, the square on the hypotenuse is…?
I like blue, you don’t like blue. Are we canceling? 