Spotify will add Covid-19 advisory to podcasts, Joe Rogan addresses controversy

31 January 2022
Here are Spotify's rules for taking down a podcast for Covid misinformation.

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    • Anonymous
    • Kg@
    • 01 Feb 2022

    Solun1, 01 Feb 2022You're not right, even though I wish you were. Compani... moreWhat people don't understand is that just because it's called free speech that doesn't mean everything is allowed to be said. Free speech only works when harmful speech is curtailed.

    If you disagree about this you're basically in the same camp that what the Nazi's did with the Holocaust is not wrong.

      Anonymous, 31 Jan 2022We absolutely do have the freedom of speech. Spotify (or an... moreYou're not right, even though I wish you were. Companies that host any kind of content are regularly forced to take the content off their platform. That isn't free speech.

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        • MM
        • 63x
        • 01 Feb 2022

        So what organization decides what is false information? For example one of your criteria is:
        "Suggesting that wearing a mask will cause the wearer imminent, life-threatening physical harm".

        Little bit of a news flash, the CDC and WHO have said that wearing masks for prolonged periods, especially while exercising is hazardous to your health, and I quote "sweat can make the mask become wet more quickly which makes it difficult to breath and promotes the growth of microorganisms".

        I see crazies at the gym wearing masks, driving by themselves or outside walking their dog. Most people that shame anti-vaxers and anti-maskers, have no clue who the CDC and World Health Organization are. People who are against being forced to inject actually know more than you crazy angry cult-vaxers do, because we research it and listen to both sides of the story with a open mind, which the msm tells you it's " dangerous" to do your own research aka use your brain and think for yourself.

        "Suggesting that consuming bleach can cure various illnesses and diseases".
        Lol, are you for real? Since when has Joe Rogan ever said that?

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          • Anonymous
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          • 01 Feb 2022

          Anonymous, 31 Jan 2022They have changed the way vaccines are defined. COVID vacci... moreYes they do, but the effectiveness wanes off after some months.

            Dogspurt, 31 Jan 2022Who is Joe Rogan? Just another opinionated, loud-mouthed, a-hole.Yup. Accused Carlos Mencia of stealing jokes which was true but defends Amy Schumer who steals even more. And Rogan's stand-up is awful. No wonder Mencia never stole material from him.

            Joe Rogan is a middle-aged white man's Oprah. I only like Rogan when he broadcasts for UFC fights. I didn't care to watch him in Fear Factor or listen to his podcast.

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              • Luizvr
              • LuM
              • 01 Feb 2022

              Bebochekov, 31 Jan 2022Freedom of speech in the US is broken and needs to be fix. Talking nonsense and misinformation is "freedom" in the United States? There is no doubt why there are so many deaths from covid in your country.

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                • LuM
                • 31 Jan 2022

                Anonymous, 31 Jan 2022They have changed the way vaccines are defined. COVID vacci... moreIt shows that you know nothing about how vaccines work, they have never been to prevent diseases, they are to avoid complications and yet none is 100% effective

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                  • Anonymous
                  • JF7
                  • 31 Jan 2022

                  kek, 31 Jan 2022The virus is real, imo. So wash your hands, use a mask whe... moreWhere do you get you information? Data from Israel that are already a year old (almost) show a 80-90% reduction of serious covid to vaccinated. And since then we have at least a dozen more studies.

                  They are far from perfect , but "the vaccines don't work" is literally unfounded mumbo jumbo that goes against every large scale study done on the matter. There are few things in science with as much concensus as "the vaccines work".

                  I don't believe in mandates because I believe people should be able to choose their possible death, and given how vaccines (mostly) do not prevent transmission from person to person, people should definitely be allowed to die by the virus. But that's a different matter than believing that "the vaccines don't work"...

                  If widespread death (from the virus) was allowed (in the form of allowing people to stay unvaccinated) it would have saved us from the moral panic we are currently in which can (and will -long term) cause more death.

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                    • Aj
                    • j7D
                    • 31 Jan 2022

                    Anonymous, 31 Jan 2022We absolutely do have the freedom of speech. Spotify (or an... moreAren't you being a little bit partisan? You do not see censorship because it is not your point of view being censored. You are only happy because what is being censored is the point of view that you do not like. Why can't we talk about this? Why does the Surgeon General, a person confirmed by the Senate ask Joe to be "censored"? Will you just be blind and let freedoms be taken away overtly or covertly because people are dying? Remember, people will die again if one day they decide to retake God given rights from the Goverment. I mean seriously, people are dying is no reason to stop speech and discussion. The basic function of the Government is to protect liberty, not public health. There used to be no Department of Health until 1953 and the US was a great nation without it. Health It is not a necessary function of any Government, liberty is.

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                      • Jason
                      • 0fZ
                      • 31 Jan 2022

                      I am not sure why he wants to be balanced. He’s one of the only guys questioning it. Every other corporate channel is fully supporting it and telling their audience to hate people that don’t agree.

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                        • Anonymous
                        • p4K
                        • 31 Jan 2022

                        cozxta, 31 Jan 2022Wait, what? Do you even know how vaccines work? Vaccines ma... moreThey have changed the way vaccines are defined. COVID vaccines don’t prevent infection like regular vaccines.

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                          • Anonymous
                          • Cxn
                          • 31 Jan 2022

                          Anonymous, 31 Jan 2022You watch too much TV. Maybe you should start reading the b... moreI watch almost no TV and am statistically literate.

                          I'm almost keenly aware that talking about cancer stats related to longer lives is completely irrelevant to a discussion on covid statistics. Can you say the same?

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                            • Anonymous
                            • 3Aq
                            • 31 Jan 2022

                            kek, 31 Jan 2022The virus is real, imo. So wash your hands, use a mask whe... more2 people you know don't constitue a sample from which to draw conclusions
                            I got vaxxed and did't even have a fever
                            friedns as well. just look the number of people dying per 100000, vaxxed are 1/5 of unvaxxed and this is form a significant sample

                              AJ, 31 Jan 2022Censorship is real. We do not have Freedom of speech to be ... moreThat's right! And if you talk about the weather the "wrong way" you are a "climate change denier.

                                Anonymous, 31 Jan 2022Each of us must decide what is true, no one must be allowed... moreTruth is truth, there's no such thing as believing what you want as true, that's crazy.

                                  Anonymous, 31 Jan 2022We absolutely do have the freedom of speech. Spotify (or an... moreFreedom of speech in the US is broken and needs to be fix.

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                                    • 31 Jan 2022

                                    Because of this Nazi rules, I will never listen to Spotify!

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • 70d
                                      • 31 Jan 2022

                                      Anonymous, 31 Jan 2022Each of us must decide what is true, no one must be allowed... moreNo, you don't decide what is true. Truth is truth regardless of your decision. If you don't believe in truth, you're in denial.

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • jMx
                                        • 31 Jan 2022

                                        AJ, 31 Jan 2022Censorship is real. We do not have Freedom of speech to be ... moreWe absolutely do have the freedom of speech. Spotify (or any other private company) can censor any speech it likes, regardless of content. You are clearly confused by how freedom of speech works in the United States.