Posted on 02/05/2022 4:28:58 AM PST by Kaslin
Could you imagine a scenario where aging rockers Neil Young and Joni Mitchell could team up and force Rush Limbaugh to make an apology, and possibly moderate his content going forward?
Yet, that’s exactly what happened last week when the two no longer relevant Boomer artists threatened to pull their music from Spotify to force the platform to seemingly pressure Joe Rogan to perform a public mea culpa for two recent episodes of his hugely successful “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast.
It doesn’t matter that the vast majority of Spotify users had no idea who Neil Young or Joni Mitchell were before this past week, Spotify knew it did not want more musical artists to join the bandwagon, so the response to these “Boomers for censorship” has been to institute a content advisory for any material that features COVID-19 information. Since then, a smattering of equally unimpressive artists have shown support for Young and Mitchell.
For his part, Rogan posted an Instagram video where he apologized to Spotify and clarified his stance regarding those two episodes and the campaign to censor him. To be sure, his response didn’t even come close to a grovel. In fact, without being heavy-handed he presented a pretty solid and reasonable defense against the rather fluid nature of the attacks on his content. Still, it was obvious that he spoke to an audience of one, which was Spotify.
“I want to thank Spotify for being so supportive during this time and I’m verry sorry that this is happening to them and that they’re taking so much heat from it,” he said.
Spotify is the largest music streaming platform in the world. While it has made significant progress towards competing against Apple in the podcast space, music is still Spotify’s bread and butter.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Preach it Brother!
(I prefer Andrew Wikow to Limbaugh...he has better facts and he isn’t on his fourth wife)
Yup! I listen every day.
Dude, get back on your medicine and rediscover reality.
And stop your dishonest posting like a CNN devotee.
Odds are you’re a Qook, too.
Ad hominem...the hobgoblin of a little mind.
I have 24 years of freeper posts for you to sift through. If you come away with the conclusion that I’m a fan of cnn, then you’re an idiot.
i know a few bernie bots, they are not commies either, more like libertarian’s. Joe Rogen , is more a libertarian, a very rich one too.
REALITY101 & COMMON SENSE101:
If you support a radical leftwing communist....you’re a radical leftwing communist, too.
To deny the above is indicative of an intellectual idiot...at best.
Ok whatever. You do you
My post was 100% accurate based on reality & common sense.
It’s not rocket science...unless you’re intellectually challenged.
Living in a make believe reality is for wokesters.
Rush could articulate better than anyone else….. without dropping F bombs e everywhere. Honestly…. Rogan is a bit of a moron.
Louder with Crowder is so much better than Rogan, and Steven Crowder is a solid conservative.
Hi Louie,
I’m the writer. You should read the whole piece. The fact that Rogan isn’t a Limbaugh, and probably doesn’t want to be, was one of the main thrusts of the whole article.
Hi McBuff,
You should read the whole article. One of the main points I made was Rogan is no Rush Limbaugh and probably doesn’t want to be.
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