He's still on YouTube btw, so still making money off the YouTube platform and gaining listeners/distribution from there.
Also, there's far worse people than Joe Rogan who make a full living off YouTube, so yeah just completely ideologically inconsistent if someone is going to reject Spotify because of Rogan and still use YouTube.
It's funny. There where 101 articles when he had "anti-vax" people on. 0 articles when he had "pro-vax" people on. He can make 15 three hour episodes that none gives a fuck about, but then 1 episode that everybody loses their shit! :D
It seems that there is some kind of disparity between how Joe Rogan is being portrayed.
It's because him having a "pro vax" person on is incidental, whereas the "anti vax" person is invited because they're anti vax. And you shouldn't be platforming people who spew nothing but falsehoods.
But if you need another example, I'd love to see a single person who stops Rogans randomly inserted anti-trans rants he manages to somehow have on every episode, even if it is not topical. Aside from the fact he had a lot of "anti trans" people on (Debora Soh, Abigail Shrier, Jordan Peterson, Blair White... I mean the list is essentially endless) and not one person who is invited because they're pro trans.
At this point I'm really curious who makes most of the booking decisions for the show. They seem to maximize for right-leaning outrage culture / reactionaries, comedians and some people with very milquetoast politics. I can only remember Bernie as a big left voice on the JRE.
Some of us actually don’t use either of these products. I can’t speak for the person who got the whatabout, but I think it’s presumptuous to jump straight to hypocrisy without any information about other choices and how they might or might not be consistent.
What video streaming sites do you use as an alternative? Or do you just not consume online video that isn't behind a strict publisher?
My understanding of the YouTube-alternatives is that they tend to be more anti-censorship, so they're likely to host even more "worse" content then Joe Rogan vs. YouTube.
If at all possible! I used to, but mostly either for streaming music (it was a convenient way to play full albums instead of finding CDs I never got around to ripping). I stopped doing that when the recommendation algorithm started trying to show me shit like Alex Jones after I listened to a Pink Floyd album or whatever.
> What video streaming sites do you use as an alternative? Or do you just not consume online video that isn't behind a strict publisher?
I mostly don’t consume a lot of video content at all. Even at times when I have it’s been mostly listening while doing other things. When I do now it’s almost entirely Netflix, and probably half the time I’m just listening while snuggling my pup.
FWIW I don’t think Netflix is any kind of a morally better alternative, either. My distaste for both Spotify for audio and YouTube for video is the same: I don’t like to consume lots of small bursts of information, especially with a lot of context switching and interaction, especially with a lot of sensory input. And I don’t like to pay extra to turn off shuffle.
As far as the moral aspect of content on these platforms, I mostly think they’re all garbage or waiting to be. And yep, consuming the ones I do does make me a hypocrite. But I appreciate the opportunity to put that fact in evidence.
Also, there's far worse people than Joe Rogan who make a full living off YouTube, so yeah just completely ideologically inconsistent if someone is going to reject Spotify because of Rogan and still use YouTube.