Joe Rogan is platform-proof

This is simply the race to the bottom having to contend with the slower-degrading popular conception "basic human decency". I don't think it has anything to do with platforms, more that platforms will all hover around the same boundary.

All media platforms have done this for ... 100 years? more? It's not unique to the internet. It used to be called "pushing the boundary" back in network TV's heydey.

> consumer engagement skyrockets the closer you get to violating community standards

"Violation of community standards" often simply consists of having signal, i.e. talking plainly about objectively existent measurable artifacts. That's what Rogan tends to do, so he is providing signal, which his audience is hungry for, because they're sick of the noise endlessly blasted out by the mainstream. "Community standards" being "violated" doesn't necessarily mean anything bad happened. If something bad actually happened, be specific about what it is. If you can't be specific, _what exactly is your real issue_?