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>"Many LGBTQAI+/ally Spotifiers feel unwelcome and alienated because of leadership's response in JRE conversations. What is your message to those employees?" another read.

Identity politics. Something tells me if JRE wants to go on Spotify he will have to massively self-censor, which will ultimately make it easy for another grassroots JRE-alike to take his place and do what he originally did - have candid, open and honest discussions about whatever topics come up.

Shitty, but I guess he's laughing to the bank if he goes through with it.

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I don’t think Rogan needs Spotify’s money. If he continues as before with zero changes then it’s on Spotify to send the message to all potential partners wether they will be free to be themselves or if they will be censored. I’m sure Spotify’s shareholders will have a lot to say if editorial/censorship decisions reflect negatively on the bottom line.

Side note: it’s amazing to me we’re even having the discussion of censorship about a self-described liberal. Imagine what Spotify’s staff would do if they tried to land one of the biggest conservative podcasters?

My guess is that he signed a contract that says he doesn’t have to self-censor.

The issue is going to be blowback within Spotify towards the management team that signed the deal.

I agree. He has a big enough following that he can launch his OWN platform to counteract censorship.

He is currently essentially has that he is on every platform, and he isn’t monetized on the likes if YouTube he does his own silly ads.

Which funny enough, IMHO, are some of the craziest things on his podcasts. I really want his assistant dude who looks up things on the computer at some point to be like "hey it says here that vitamin C hasn't been proven to prevent illness by all these studies"

The $100M comes from Spotify's broad appeal to sensible listeners of all walks of life. It's why all major media are terrified of scandal. There are niches for every type of opinion but there's a reason you make more money working for Spotify or Netflix or network TV than Infowars.

It's not really identity politics when Rogan is the one calling out the identity groups. Maybe not all trans* people have the same opinions or identify strongly as a group, but when Rogan calls them a social contagion, claims they have an ideologically-driven agenda, and says "Maybe if you live with crazy bitches all the time, they fuckin' turn you into one?", it's not that weird that they would have a uniformly negative response.

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