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Spotify Employees Threaten to Strike If Joe Rogan Podcasts Aren’t Removed

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I've seen these articles posted the last few days with a handful of upvotes, likely not enough to gain traction but with no conversation.

How do people feel about this? I'm not really sure where I fall on this.

Is the goal to remove Rogan entirely from Spotify or to edit out the controversial parts of the podcast?

I guess if there is action to take, I'd prefer an all-or-nothing approach because censoring out the bad parts seems weird and ineffective.

An aside, the tech world in general is facing moral decisions all over on who to work for or support now that the general kooliad is getting stale and people are discovering that Don't be evil PR campaigns SV companies have pushed for decades have been a ruse since the beginning. However I'm not sure either on the impact of any of that when big salaries are still the forefront topic of many.

My understanding is that they want certain episodes removed or edited. This is rather ironic given that Joe Rogan is one of the few interviewers that will talk with anyone and let them get their story out even while vehemently disagreeing with their stance, and then built a rather successful business because of _that_. In many ways he's more journalist than anyone else in the spotlight.

If there's a way to alienate a majority of Americans who don't happen to live an urbane, educated, privileged existence - this is it.

Rogan isn't Limbaugh. Most of the complainers here wouldn't last a day in a normal working class life. They'd crumble.

edit: scratch that, not only is Rogan not Limbaugh...he's a Bernie supporter

gaslighting - Using denial, misdirection, contradiction, and misinformation, gaslighting involves attempts to destabilize the victim and delegitimize the victim's beliefs.

He can't be a right wing extremist because he supported a fringe democratic candidate.

> He can't be a right wing extremist because he supported a fringe democratic candidate

When anyone who strays from your self-righteous, moralizing worldview is a right wing extremist...that term ceases to mean anything.

My only point though is that the left hasn't been self-reflective whatsoever. They still have the Hillary-esque view that the rest of the country should apologize for the last 4 years, and the deplorables ruined everything. They're absolutely dripping in working class resentment and it's pretty clear.

Instead of asking themselves how they could lose to an absolute moron and do the hard self-reflection that would maybe reveal how they could appeal to the working class and disenchanted - they just yell about Orange Hitler and how right they were all along.

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