Social Worker Brené Brown, who also has an exclusive Podcast deal with Spotify, has articulated better than I can the position I associate myself with on all this. I recommend her full statement at the link below (also available on her Instagram), but here is a key excerpt:
“On February 1, I explained the pause across social and on my website and committed to learning more about Spotify’s policies and the application of these policies… I also needed to wrestle with the line between misinformation and censoring. *If there’s a line—who gets to decide it? Do warnings really help?* I’m always going to stand firmly on the side of free speech, so I had a lot of learning to do. As stated in the previous post, I’ve never asked Spotify to deplatform or censor Joe Rogan. I wanted Spotify to have a transparent misinformation policy (made available to the public) that balances addressing the complex misinformation issues we face today while respecting free speech. And to be meaningful, I stated that the policy must be applied across the platform without exception. Spotify developed the policy, shared it publicly, and have started to apply it. There’s still a ton of work here. We need to better understand what warnings are effective and what warnings are useless (e.g., there’s interesting new data on the efficacy of contextual versus interstitial warnings)…” https://brenebrown.com/articles/2022/02/08/podcast-update-february-8-2022/ On Mon, 7 Feb 2022 at 4:46 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < [email protected]> wrote: > Singer India Arie posted a collage of Rogan epithets, joining the Spotify > artist protest exodus... leading to an apology, and withdrawal of many > episodes, by Joe... and to Spotify head Daniel Ek both condemning *and* > defending > him... > > > https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/spotify-joe-rogan-daniel-ek-1235087928/ > (link) > B > > Steve Timko, to Kevin M, David Bruggeman and PGage, Feb 6th: > >> Wow, this is a great clip. What happened to that Joe Rogan? >> >> https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdkuXPyW/ >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/b1e1b6af-8425-41b4-bcee-f2aadae978c6n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/b1e1b6af-8425-41b4-bcee-f2aadae978c6n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYKFeb3jmiTbPOcfTE%3DGTX98tV91%3D16ACKZuc%3DH31Fm8jw%40mail.gmail.com.
