“I don’t blame Spotify for siding with Joe Rogan,” said freshman Mick Tobin. Others think that censoring those views would be an unethical violation of freedom of speech. “If your opinions aren’t affecting others, then do whatever you want – but that changes when you’re actively harming other people.” “Everyone’s entitled to their political opinions, but if those political opinions affect public health and the way people cope with COVID and other diseases, it’s not okay to support things that aren’t based in fact,” said freshman Priyanshi Ahuja. Some believe that the ideas Joe Rogan platforms on his show are too dangerous and incendiary to be worthy of protection.
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The controversy raises a host of questions: is Spotify implicitly endorsing Rogan’s views by hosting his podcast as a Spotify exclusive? What is more important: a corporation’s duty to protect free speech, or its duty to stop the spread of misinformation?ĭuke students’ opinions on the #DeleteSpotify controversy are mixed. Other artists, most notably Joni Mitchell, have since followed Young’s lead, asking that their music be taken off of Spotify in protest as well. “We regret Neil’s decision to remove his music from Spotify,” they said in a statement, “but hope to welcome him back again soon.” Two days after the publication of Young’s letter, Spotify announced they had begun removing Young’s music. “I am doing this because Spotify is spreading fake information about vaccines – potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation about them,” wrote Young. 24 asking that his musical catalog be deleted from Spotify. Singer-songwriter Neil Young published a letter on his website Jan. Spotify did nothing – until high-profile artists on its platform took notice. 31, more than 270 physicians and science educators cosigned an open letter condemning Rogan’s promotion of anti-vax beliefs and asking Spotify to take action.
presidential election and the COVID-19 pandemic. But Rogan, self-described as having “a love-hate relationship with conspiracies”, has also used his platform to spread misinformation about the 2020 U.S. “The Joe Rogan Experience,” ranked as Spotify’s most popular podcast in 2021, features a rotating cast of guests discussing science, politics and pop culture. In a post on Sunday, Spotify chief executive Daniel Ek laid out more transparent platform rules given the backlash stirred by Young, who on Wednesday had his music removed from Spotify after the tech giant declined to get rid of episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience, which has been criticised for spreading coronavirus misinformation.The controversy started back in September 2020, when host Joe Rogan signed a more than $100 million deal with Spotify to make his podcast’s 11-year catalog exclusive to the streaming service. It comes after singer-songwriters Neil Young and Joni Mitchell removed their music from Spotify in protest against the popular streaming service allowing the airing of misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.
Rogan additionally welcomed the idea of adding advisories before podcasts related to COVID-19. Rogan noted that he earlier sat down on the show with Dr Sanjay Gupta, the chief medical correspondent for CNN, Dr Michael Osterholm, who is a member of President Joe Biden's COVID-19 advisory board, and Dr Peter Hotez from Baylor College of Medicine. He also said that he schedules the guests on his podcast himself, and that he would try to book doctors with different opinions right after he talks to "the controversial ones". "I've never tried to do anything with this podcast other than to just talk to people."
“I'm not trying to promote misinformation, I'm not trying to be controversial,” Rogan said.
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