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India Arie Shares Clips Of Joe Rogan Using N-Word, Calling Black People "Apes"
By Erika Marie
February 03, 2022
Joe Rogan' Podcast Continues To Create Turmoil Within Spotify
She recently joined several other artists who asked Spotify to remove their catalogs because of comments Rogan makes on his podcast.
She recently shared that she would be removing her music from Spotify due to her feelings regarding the platform's partnership with Joe Rogan and now, India Arie is sharing more about her decision. Several artists have come forward this week with statements about The Joe Rogan Experience and their grievances with the podcast sharing misinformation about COVID and the vaccines.
Artists like Neil Young and Joni Mitchell have sparked a protest of sorts against Spotify, and Arie added her name to the list—but not because of COVID. The award-winning Neo-soul singer stated that Rogan's comments about race have disturbed her and Spotify's viewed approval of his language has resulted in her taking drastic steps.
Arie returned to not only double down on her stance but to share several clips of Rogan on his podcast referring to Black neighborhoods as "Planet of the Apes" and carelessly saying "n*gger" on-air in several episodes.
"He shouldn't even be uttering the word. Don't even say it, under any context. Don't say it. That's where I stand. I have always stood there," said the singer, before she explained that Spotify reached out to her to ask what she wanted. Arie claimed that the platform admitted that most of its streams are from Black artists, so she questioned why they would pay a fraction of a cent to artists while giving Rogan a $100 million deal.
Additionally, she said she has been against Rogan for some time, but it wasn't until Neil Young voiced his ire and removed his music from Spotify that she was able to come forward with her complaints. Meanwhile, Spotify's CEO Daniel Ek recently stated no one creator can make the platform change its policies.
Check out India Arie's video below as well as Rogan's n-word moments on his podcast.
GRAHAM NASH TO REMOVE MUSIC FROM SPOTIFY: “I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH AND SUPPORT MY FRIEND NEIL YOUNG”
BY TINA BENITEZ-EVES
2 DAYS AGO
Graham Nash has joined his former bandmate Neil Young by removing his music from Spotify in a growing artist-driven protest over what they call misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccines being shared by podcast host Joe Rogan.
Nash, 80, is the latest in a growing number of artists, including Joni Mitchell, E Street Band guitarist Nils Lofgren and most recently India Arie, who have all requested to have their music removed from streaming platform in unison with Young and in opposition of comments made on Rogan’s Spotify podcast The Joe Rogan Experience.
“Having heard the Covid disinformation spread by Joe Rogan on Spotify” said Nash in a statement, I completely agree with and support my friend Neil Young and I am requesting that my solo recordings be removed from the service.”
On Jan. 26, Young requested that his music be removed from Spotify if the streaming platform wanted to keep Rogan, who he said was sharing “fake information about vaccines – potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them.”
The Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young singer and guitarist, who also co-founded the 1960s pop group the Hollies, said that the opinions being shared on Rogan’s show are “dishonest and unsupported by solid facts” and that Spotify is an enabler, cos people their lives.
Nash added, “There is a difference between being open to varying viewpoints on a matter and knowingly spreading false information which some 270 medical professionals have derided as not only false but dangerous. Likewise, there is a difference between misinformation, in which one is unaware that what is being said is false, versus disinformation which is knowingly false and intended to mislead and sway public opinion.”
Spotify has responded to the backlash by adding added content advisories to podcasts discussing COVID-19. Rogan also issued a statement defending his guest’s opinions but also stating that he is open to adding guests with more diverse opinions moving forward.
“It should also be acknowledged that many younger musicians, and many musicians of all ages, rely on platforms like this to gain exposure to a wider audience and share their music with the world,” added Nash. “Not everyone is able to take steps like this which is all the more reason that platforms like Spotify must be more responsible and accountable for the content they are obligated to moderate for the good of the public at large.”
Graham Nash has joined his former bandmate Neil Young by removing his music from Spotify in a growing artist-driven protest over what they call misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccines being shared by podcast host Joe Rogan.
Nash, 80, is the latest in a growing number of artists, including Joni Mitchell, E Street Band guitarist Nils Lofgren and most recently India Arie, who have all requested to have their music removed from streaming platform in unison with Young and in opposition of comments made on Rogan’s Spotify podcast The Joe Rogan Experience.
“Having heard the Covid disinformation spread by Joe Rogan on Spotify” said Nash in a statement, I completely agree with and support my friend Neil Young and I am requesting that my solo recordings be removed from the service.”
On Jan. 26, Young requested that his music be removed from Spotify if the streaming platform wanted to keep Rogan, who he said was sharing “fake information about vaccines – potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them.”
The Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young singer and guitarist, who also co-founded the 1960s pop group the Hollies, said that the opinions being shared on Rogan’s show are “dishonest and unsupported by solid facts” and that Spotify is an enabler, cos people their lives.
Nash added, “There is a difference between being open to varying viewpoints on a matter and knowingly spreading false information which some 270 medical professionals have derided as not only false but dangerous. Likewise, there is a difference between misinformation, in which one is unaware that what is being said is false, versus disinformation which is knowingly false and intended to mislead and sway public opinion.”
Spotify has responded to the backlash by adding added content advisories to podcasts discussing COVID-19. Rogan also issued a statement defending his guest’s opinions but also stating that he is open to adding guests with more diverse opinions moving forward.
“It should also be acknowledged that many younger musicians, and many musicians of all ages, rely on platforms like this to gain exposure to a wider audience and share their music with the world,” added Nash. “Not everyone is able to take steps like this which is all the more reason that platforms like Spotify must be more responsible and accountable for the content they are obligated to moderate for the good of the public at large.”
Video by American Songwriter
The Joe Rogan, Neil Young & Spotify Controversy EXPLAINED | Headlines
Neil Young has threatened to pull his music from Spotify unless they remove Joe Rogan's podcast from their platform. We're breaking down the whole story for you on this episode of Headlines.
The Joe Rogan, Neil Young & Spotify Controversy EXPLAINED | Headlines
Neil Young has threatened to pull his music from Spotify unless they remove Joe Rogan's podcast from their platform. We're breaking down the whole story for you on this episode of Headlines.
Neil Young and other artists leave Spotify
in opposition to COVID-19 misinformation
spread by podcaster Joe Rogan
in opposition to COVID-19 misinformation
spread by podcaster Joe Rogan
Kevin Reed
WSWS.ORG
2 February 2022
On Sunday, the audio streaming service Spotify publicly responded to a growing number of artists who have joined rock star Neil Young and removed their music from the platform in response to the spreading of misinformation about the pandemic by the platform’s featured podcaster Joe Rogan.
Without ever mentioning Neil Young or Joe Rogan, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek posted a statement on the company news feed that admitted the $40 billion corporation has had policies for “what is acceptable and what is not” for many years, but “we haven’t been transparent around the policies that guide our content more broadly.”
Ek went on to say that Spotify was making public for the first time its platform rules and adding “a content advisory to any podcast episode that includes a discussion about COVID-19.” Ek also said the advisory would direct listeners to its global COVID-19 Hub that includes “data-driven facts, up-to-date information as shared by scientists, physicians, academics and public health authorities around the world, as well as links to trusted sources.”
Joe Rogan, Neil Young (Wikimedia Commons)
On Monday, shares of Spotify Technology jumped 13.6 percent in value, a recovery of the more than $4 billion it had lost after Neil Young published a series of scathing letters on his website beginning on January 24, demanding that his music be removed from the platform.
According to Rolling Stone, Young addressed his first letter—which has since been removed from his website—to his manager and a Warner Music Group executive. It stated, in part, “I am doing this because Spotify is spreading fake information about vaccines—potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them. Please act on this immediately today and keep me informed of the time schedule.”
Young then wrote, “I want you to let Spotify know immediately TODAY that I want all my music off their platform. They can have Rogan or Young. Not both.” Rolling Stone also quoted Young, writing, “With an estimated 11 million listeners per episode, JRE, which is hosted exclusively on Spotify, is the world’s largest podcast and has tremendous influence. Spotify has a responsibility to mitigate the spread of misinformation on its platform, though the company presently has no misinformation policy.”
Furthermore, Young explained that by removing his music from Spotify, he would lose “60 percent of my worldwide streaming income in the name of Truth” and he denounced Spotify as “the home of life threatening COVID misinformation. Lies being sold for money.”
On January 28, Young issued another statement that said, “When I left Spotify, I felt better.
“I support free speech. I have never been in favor of censorship. Private companies have the right to choose what they profit from, just as I can choose not to have my music support a platform that disseminates harmful information. I am happy and proud to stand in solidarity with the front-line health care workers who risk their lives every day to help others.”
Spotify was founded in 2006 in Sweden by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon. It is the world’s largest audio streaming service with 381 million users, 172 million of whom are paid subscribers. By comparison, Apple Music has 72 million and Amazon Music has 55 million paid subscribers.
Joe Rogan, 54, is a comedian, television host and mixed martial arts commentator who has developed into one of the most popular and lucrative podcast hosts over the past 12 years. In May 2020, he signed an exclusive multi-year deal with Spotify worth a reported $100 million for the Joe Rogan Experience (JRE).
Rogan has an ongoing relationship with extreme right-wing and fascistic figures such as the radio host and Infowars publisher Alex Jones. Jones was banned directly by Spotify and by a series of other online platforms for his promotion of the alt-right, white supremacy, antisemitism, conspiracy theories and lies about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in 2012. However, Jones has been given a platform for his fascistic ranting on JRE during extensive conversations with Joe Rogan.
While Rogan maintains that he does not support the views of the far right, his objective is to transmit fascistic and white nationalist views among the public and give them an air of legitimacy. This has certainly been the case with the content of the information on his podcast about the pandemic, much of which would fit perfectly well within the realm of QAnon supporters and the fanatic Trump-supporter and fascist Republican Representative from Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Greene.
For example, on New Year’s Eve, episode 1757 of JRE featured an interview by Joe Rogan with Dr. Robert Malone, a right-wing physician who has spread falsehoods that COVID-19 vaccines “don’t work” and compared vaccination efforts to the measures carried out by the Nazis in 1930s Germany. Malone also said that efforts to combat the pandemic were “mass formation psychosis,” meaning millions of people have been “hypnotized” into believing in COVID testing, vaccination and other measures to stop the spread of the virus.
While Rogan has made comments like, “I don’t know if this guy is right or wrong. I’m just asking questions,” the lies told by Malone were so outrageous that 270 doctors, physicians and science educators signed an open letter calling on Spotify to take immediate action against pandemic misinformation on its platform. While the open letter from the doctors did not demand that Spotify remove the Rogan-Malone episode, YouTube took the decision to remove it.
In another instance, on April 23, 2021, Rogan discouraged young people from getting the vaccine during a conversation with comedian Dave Smith, saying, “if you’re like 21 years old, and you say to me, ‘Should I get vaccinated?’ I’ll go ‘no.’”
On Friday, Spotify removed Neil Young’s music from its platform, saying they “regret” his decision, “but hope to welcome him back soon.” Neil Young has since been encouraging other artists to join him and asking listeners to move to competing music streaming services such as Amazon and Apple because of their support for Hi-Res audio, which Spotify does not offer.
Over the weekend, Joni Mitchell and Nils Lofgren—a member of Neil Young’s band Crazy Horse and Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band—joined the campaign. Mitchell said, “I’ve decided to remove all of my music from Spotify” in solidarity with Young. Lofgren wrote that he urged “all musicians, artists and music lovers everywhere” to do the same.
In an online video, Rogan responded to the objections and admitted that his show has grown “out of control.” He promised to be more balanced and informed about the topics and guests on the program and thanked Spotify for standing behind him. He also claimed he was a huge Neil Young fan.
The opposition of artists with mass international followings to right-wing, anti-science and anti-vaccine views circulating among the public—and especially among the youth—is a welcome development. Contrary to the claims of the far-right, this is not a case of “censorship.” Spotify has a massive and lucrative contract with Rogan to promote his podcast.
However, there are much deeper issues involved. The source of the hysterical opposition to the range of actions needed to eliminate COVID-19—including masking, contact tracing, isolation, vaccination, social distancing, economic restrictions and lockdowns—is the capitalist system.
The corporate and financial elite, with the backing of both the Democrats and Republicans, is deliberately cultivating the environment within which far-right individuals and groups are permitted to spread lies and confusion within the public. This is being done in order to force children into the schools, keep workers on the job and guarantee that the profits and wealth of the billionaires continues to roll in regardless of the numbers who will get sick and die from the pandemic.
The only way to stop the lies, defeat the right wing and expose its facilitators like Rogan is through the independent political mobilization of the working class against the capitalist system and in the fight for socialism.
WSWS.ORG
2 February 2022
On Sunday, the audio streaming service Spotify publicly responded to a growing number of artists who have joined rock star Neil Young and removed their music from the platform in response to the spreading of misinformation about the pandemic by the platform’s featured podcaster Joe Rogan.
Without ever mentioning Neil Young or Joe Rogan, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek posted a statement on the company news feed that admitted the $40 billion corporation has had policies for “what is acceptable and what is not” for many years, but “we haven’t been transparent around the policies that guide our content more broadly.”
Ek went on to say that Spotify was making public for the first time its platform rules and adding “a content advisory to any podcast episode that includes a discussion about COVID-19.” Ek also said the advisory would direct listeners to its global COVID-19 Hub that includes “data-driven facts, up-to-date information as shared by scientists, physicians, academics and public health authorities around the world, as well as links to trusted sources.”
Joe Rogan, Neil Young (Wikimedia Commons)
On Monday, shares of Spotify Technology jumped 13.6 percent in value, a recovery of the more than $4 billion it had lost after Neil Young published a series of scathing letters on his website beginning on January 24, demanding that his music be removed from the platform.
According to Rolling Stone, Young addressed his first letter—which has since been removed from his website—to his manager and a Warner Music Group executive. It stated, in part, “I am doing this because Spotify is spreading fake information about vaccines—potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them. Please act on this immediately today and keep me informed of the time schedule.”
Young then wrote, “I want you to let Spotify know immediately TODAY that I want all my music off their platform. They can have Rogan or Young. Not both.” Rolling Stone also quoted Young, writing, “With an estimated 11 million listeners per episode, JRE, which is hosted exclusively on Spotify, is the world’s largest podcast and has tremendous influence. Spotify has a responsibility to mitigate the spread of misinformation on its platform, though the company presently has no misinformation policy.”
Furthermore, Young explained that by removing his music from Spotify, he would lose “60 percent of my worldwide streaming income in the name of Truth” and he denounced Spotify as “the home of life threatening COVID misinformation. Lies being sold for money.”
On January 28, Young issued another statement that said, “When I left Spotify, I felt better.
“I support free speech. I have never been in favor of censorship. Private companies have the right to choose what they profit from, just as I can choose not to have my music support a platform that disseminates harmful information. I am happy and proud to stand in solidarity with the front-line health care workers who risk their lives every day to help others.”
Spotify was founded in 2006 in Sweden by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon. It is the world’s largest audio streaming service with 381 million users, 172 million of whom are paid subscribers. By comparison, Apple Music has 72 million and Amazon Music has 55 million paid subscribers.
Joe Rogan, 54, is a comedian, television host and mixed martial arts commentator who has developed into one of the most popular and lucrative podcast hosts over the past 12 years. In May 2020, he signed an exclusive multi-year deal with Spotify worth a reported $100 million for the Joe Rogan Experience (JRE).
Rogan has an ongoing relationship with extreme right-wing and fascistic figures such as the radio host and Infowars publisher Alex Jones. Jones was banned directly by Spotify and by a series of other online platforms for his promotion of the alt-right, white supremacy, antisemitism, conspiracy theories and lies about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in 2012. However, Jones has been given a platform for his fascistic ranting on JRE during extensive conversations with Joe Rogan.
While Rogan maintains that he does not support the views of the far right, his objective is to transmit fascistic and white nationalist views among the public and give them an air of legitimacy. This has certainly been the case with the content of the information on his podcast about the pandemic, much of which would fit perfectly well within the realm of QAnon supporters and the fanatic Trump-supporter and fascist Republican Representative from Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Greene.
For example, on New Year’s Eve, episode 1757 of JRE featured an interview by Joe Rogan with Dr. Robert Malone, a right-wing physician who has spread falsehoods that COVID-19 vaccines “don’t work” and compared vaccination efforts to the measures carried out by the Nazis in 1930s Germany. Malone also said that efforts to combat the pandemic were “mass formation psychosis,” meaning millions of people have been “hypnotized” into believing in COVID testing, vaccination and other measures to stop the spread of the virus.
While Rogan has made comments like, “I don’t know if this guy is right or wrong. I’m just asking questions,” the lies told by Malone were so outrageous that 270 doctors, physicians and science educators signed an open letter calling on Spotify to take immediate action against pandemic misinformation on its platform. While the open letter from the doctors did not demand that Spotify remove the Rogan-Malone episode, YouTube took the decision to remove it.
In another instance, on April 23, 2021, Rogan discouraged young people from getting the vaccine during a conversation with comedian Dave Smith, saying, “if you’re like 21 years old, and you say to me, ‘Should I get vaccinated?’ I’ll go ‘no.’”
On Friday, Spotify removed Neil Young’s music from its platform, saying they “regret” his decision, “but hope to welcome him back soon.” Neil Young has since been encouraging other artists to join him and asking listeners to move to competing music streaming services such as Amazon and Apple because of their support for Hi-Res audio, which Spotify does not offer.
Over the weekend, Joni Mitchell and Nils Lofgren—a member of Neil Young’s band Crazy Horse and Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band—joined the campaign. Mitchell said, “I’ve decided to remove all of my music from Spotify” in solidarity with Young. Lofgren wrote that he urged “all musicians, artists and music lovers everywhere” to do the same.
In an online video, Rogan responded to the objections and admitted that his show has grown “out of control.” He promised to be more balanced and informed about the topics and guests on the program and thanked Spotify for standing behind him. He also claimed he was a huge Neil Young fan.
The opposition of artists with mass international followings to right-wing, anti-science and anti-vaccine views circulating among the public—and especially among the youth—is a welcome development. Contrary to the claims of the far-right, this is not a case of “censorship.” Spotify has a massive and lucrative contract with Rogan to promote his podcast.
However, there are much deeper issues involved. The source of the hysterical opposition to the range of actions needed to eliminate COVID-19—including masking, contact tracing, isolation, vaccination, social distancing, economic restrictions and lockdowns—is the capitalist system.
The corporate and financial elite, with the backing of both the Democrats and Republicans, is deliberately cultivating the environment within which far-right individuals and groups are permitted to spread lies and confusion within the public. This is being done in order to force children into the schools, keep workers on the job and guarantee that the profits and wealth of the billionaires continues to roll in regardless of the numbers who will get sick and die from the pandemic.
The only way to stop the lies, defeat the right wing and expose its facilitators like Rogan is through the independent political mobilization of the working class against the capitalist system and in the fight for socialism.
Morning Joe rains hell on Spotify for 'stupid' plan to protect Joe Rogan
Tom Boggioni
January 31, 2022
MSNBC screenshots
Reacting to a statement from Spotify that they will begin to add a “content advisory” notice to virus-related content in response to the backlash against Joe Rogan's misinformation-laden podcasts, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough lashed out at the platform calling their handling of the controversy "stupid."
With legendary artists like Neil Young and Joni Mitchell pulling their music from the platform for allowing the popular podcaster to spew falsehoods endangering the public's health -- and fans canceling their accounts -- Spotify's CEO Daniel Ek issued a public letter stating, "We know we have a critical role to play in supporting creator expression while balancing it with the safety of our users. In that role, it is important to me that we don’t take on the position of being content censor while also making sure that there are rules in place and consequences for those who violate them.”
Although Ek didn't name Rogan, the intent was clear that the company is trying to put out a major fire that is impacting their bottom line while protecting Rogan who signed a multi-million dollar deal with them
RELATED: Joe Rogan's wildest interview yet
After shouting multiple times "This is stupid!" the "Morning Joe" host went on a diatribe against the company for trying to protect Rogan who admitted he doesn't do any research before allowing his guests to spout whatever they want -- often with no pushback.
"Let's separate what Rogan said and Spotify said," he began. "What Spotify said was a total copout. When they go, 'we're going to label any discussion about covid,' no, you don't label any discussion about covid; you label the garbage discussions where people are coming on with conspiracy theories and talking about ivermectin and talking about other things that the medical field, the medical community, disagree with and all of you -- you know, you have a guy on talking, spewing conspiracy theories about the vaccine."
"So for Spotify to say, 'Oh, we're just going to warn everybody if there's ever a discussion on Covid,' that is such a copout by Spotify," he continued.
"I mean I don't listen to the program, I haven't listened to it much, not a regular listener, I will say there is sort of a both sides-ism going on with him [Rogan] where, you know, I will put on this person who is spewing dangerous information and then I will put on somebody who is smart," he continued. "It is also like I'll put on Alex Jones and then I will put somebody on the other side who doesn't say that the parents who got murdered, whose children got murdered at Sandy Hook are not just actors and that wasn't a false flag."
"I was going to say you can't have it both ways but Spotify is allowing him to have it both ways," he later added. "He's an entertainer and he never said he is anything else but an entertainer, he should be free to say what he wants to say. It is Spotify here that really -- they've got to do better."
Watch below:
MSNBC 01 31 2022 06 40 48youtu.be
Tom Boggioni
January 31, 2022
MSNBC screenshots
Reacting to a statement from Spotify that they will begin to add a “content advisory” notice to virus-related content in response to the backlash against Joe Rogan's misinformation-laden podcasts, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough lashed out at the platform calling their handling of the controversy "stupid."
With legendary artists like Neil Young and Joni Mitchell pulling their music from the platform for allowing the popular podcaster to spew falsehoods endangering the public's health -- and fans canceling their accounts -- Spotify's CEO Daniel Ek issued a public letter stating, "We know we have a critical role to play in supporting creator expression while balancing it with the safety of our users. In that role, it is important to me that we don’t take on the position of being content censor while also making sure that there are rules in place and consequences for those who violate them.”
Although Ek didn't name Rogan, the intent was clear that the company is trying to put out a major fire that is impacting their bottom line while protecting Rogan who signed a multi-million dollar deal with them
RELATED: Joe Rogan's wildest interview yet
After shouting multiple times "This is stupid!" the "Morning Joe" host went on a diatribe against the company for trying to protect Rogan who admitted he doesn't do any research before allowing his guests to spout whatever they want -- often with no pushback.
"Let's separate what Rogan said and Spotify said," he began. "What Spotify said was a total copout. When they go, 'we're going to label any discussion about covid,' no, you don't label any discussion about covid; you label the garbage discussions where people are coming on with conspiracy theories and talking about ivermectin and talking about other things that the medical field, the medical community, disagree with and all of you -- you know, you have a guy on talking, spewing conspiracy theories about the vaccine."
"So for Spotify to say, 'Oh, we're just going to warn everybody if there's ever a discussion on Covid,' that is such a copout by Spotify," he continued.
"I mean I don't listen to the program, I haven't listened to it much, not a regular listener, I will say there is sort of a both sides-ism going on with him [Rogan] where, you know, I will put on this person who is spewing dangerous information and then I will put on somebody who is smart," he continued. "It is also like I'll put on Alex Jones and then I will put somebody on the other side who doesn't say that the parents who got murdered, whose children got murdered at Sandy Hook are not just actors and that wasn't a false flag."
"I was going to say you can't have it both ways but Spotify is allowing him to have it both ways," he later added. "He's an entertainer and he never said he is anything else but an entertainer, he should be free to say what he wants to say. It is Spotify here that really -- they've got to do better."
Watch below:
MSNBC 01 31 2022 06 40 48youtu.be
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