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Not the OP, but a world in which IT giants do delete speech they don't like might be the same world in which the actual horrors such as starvation, violence or civil wars do not get enough attention because a discreet request from the implicated government is enough to take the incriminating content down.

Look, for example, at the way that the Indian government used to strong-arm Twitter into obedience.

"It’s really painful to see people draw moral and ethical lines over episodes of a guy bullshitting into a microphone being removed. It’d be nice if your ire and indignation were directed at an issue that would objectively improve the world, like exploitation of children, food inequality and starvation..."

The free expression of ideas is more important than what you listed here. And see if you can figure out why it is directly related to said issues.

MSNBC and CNN yelling fake "Russiagate" is harmful too. Nobody is asking them to be cancelled!

CNN just hired a guy that made book about fake Saddam Hussein and Al-qaeda connection.

CNN and others where saying Irak has WDM. That's proved to be a bold faced lie. Nobody is asking them to be banned in the cancel culture circles.

It's weird that one podcast host can be the root of evil, but selling a WAR with fake lies is nothing.

EDIT: WAR definitely kills people

I think censorship is morally and ethically wrong, and no amount of left wingers screaming "save the kids" like you is going to change my mind.

Why is censorship a “left wing” thing? Right wing states have been banning books and movies for decades in the name of “thinking of the children”.

The cognitive dissonance is startling.

Well, it's the left that pushing to cancel Rogan, no question. I am also certainly opposed to right wing censorship in any forms, but that's not really what is being discussed here. This just seems like whataboutism.

> This just seems like whataboutism.

Much like your original comment, and it doesn’t change that you targeted a political side that you blatantly disagree with. Your statement would be better made without the needless political slant, which as I point out, the other side have done it far more egregiously and in public institutions, such as libraries and schools.

To call this ‘censorship’ I believe is wrong:

1. It’s scientifically proven to be false. Misinformation, be it intended or otherwise brings its own moral and ethical issues.

2. Private companies have the right to choose what they publish/sell on their platform. Preventing them from doing so is also a suppression of free speech.

3. Everyone has a right to an opinion, and to voice that opinion. No-one has an inalienable right to have that opinion published, agreed with or disseminated by any platform they choose.

If anyone has taken choice away, it’s Rogan. Rogan chose to sell exclusivity to his catalog for a very handsome some. Along with that, he chose to forgo certain rights - one being which podcasts Spotify choose to make available.