Instead of pushing back against a genocidal communist dictatorship, the American thought police are shutting down a podcaster.
For the crime of hosting medical viewpoints on Covid and vaccines that challenge the corporate media narrative, Joe Rogan has found himself in the middle of a boycott attempt by a handful of artists and a bevy of enraged blue checkmarks on Twitter. Meanwhile, the Chinese Communist Party has carried out human rights abuses against everyone from Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang to political dissidents to residents under its oppressive Covid regime, and will be rewarded with the honor of hosting the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
Joe Rogan has described himself as being on the political left, and even endorsed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders for president in 2020. He’s no Tea Partier or even a Republican.
Yet Rogan — who has survived cancellation attempts before — is again the target of rage for hosting guests like Dr. Robert Malone on his show, “The Joe Rogan Experience.” Malone, who was instrumental in developing mRNA vaccine technology, criticized Covid medical mandates and highlighted the vaccine’s inability to prevent infection or transmission, describing the unilateral thinking bloc of corporate media, government, and their submissive Covid disciples as a “mass formation psychosis.”
Merely giving Malone a platform for discussion has made Rogan the target of calls for Spotify to take down his podcast, which was the music streaming platform’s top listened-to podcast in 2021. Spotify’s failure to immediately and unilaterally cancel Rogan for facilitating something that used to be called freedom of speech has led artists like Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and Springsteen guitarist Nils Lofgren to boycott Spotify.
Podcaster Brené Brown also announced she would stop making her Spotify-exclusive podcasts “until further notice.” A group of 270 doctors and scientists sent a letter to Spotify urging the company to crack down on “misinformation” like they insisted Rogan was supposedly enabling. Even Mr. and Mrs. Meghan Markle expressed their “concerns” about Spotify’s hosting of supposed misinformation. Amid this barrage, Spotify saw its stock value tumble by billions.
Meanwhile, blue check marks on Twitter fanned the cancellation flames, while Twitter did its best to highlight the ire in its “trending” section:
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