Joe Rogan: The Platform-Proof Creator

Spotify’s No-Win Predicament

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@joshua.marc.nelson over 3 years ago

The interesting thing is the two individuals that caused all the "anti-vaxxer" characterized hubbub for Rogan, aren't anti-vaxxers; this is where all the analysis including this article goes, in a biased fashion, sideways.

I'm fully vaccinated and have no dog in this fight...

McCullough and Malone are credentialed and simply present questions or other povs to accepted COVID wisdom. Yeah, they may be right or wrong on any given point. That's the point of democracy or a dialectic.

That this simple conclusion is lost in all analysis of the "Rogan thing" is beyond ignorant, from my pov. This is the double-blind.

The hysteria this Rogan thing caused, is hysterical. I don't even like Rogan, lol.

What I like even less, is the institutional, systemic myopia being imposed (and, no I'm not a right-winger and voted for the dog with the least fleas in Biden, lol)

@nils+every over 3 years ago

Disclaimer: I do watch the Podcast (not every episode but some) so I'm also biased in as much as I like some of it. It's worth noting that the term Anti-Vaxxer has become a bit overloaded, it conjures an image of people who believe that a vaccine turns you magnetic and that Bill Gates puts tracking chips in them while what is discussed on the Podcast is vastly different to the point that I would consider that term used in bad faith.

I don't think Rogan keeps pushing the boundaries in the way you claim, it's really that the boundaries keep shifting on many platforms as moderation gets more and more aggressive. Spotify capitalized on this by signing Rogan before he was kicked off Youtube.

The major platforms are getting more extreme in their moderation even to the detriment of their revenue, likely because they want to avoid being regulated like media companies and retain the privilege of being a platform - even though I would say once they start having an editorial policy (not just removing illegal content, though on an international platform that can apply to a lot of things depending on the jurisdiction) they are in fact a media company.

I think your hypothesis hasn't accounted for the pressure to keep increasing moderation. This makes the bind worse.