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What's really going on with the recent Joe Rogan controversy?

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  • #152
    Tell me how
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,217 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118659643#Comment_118659643

    They said the same about Donald getting kicked off Twitter and Facebook, and look how that has played out.

    I'm being a bit flippant there, of course Joe could easily run a platform from his own basement, that's effectively how he started. But if he were to leave Spotify now, without going to a major recognized platform I think he would see his audience drop off significantly. If this were to happen, it would be because Spotify no longer wanted to carry him, for whatever reason, and if that were the case, other big players like Apple and Acast might stay away for similar reasons and while a lot of people listen to him, I'm not sure that all of them would do so as much if they had to seek him out outside of a dedicated platform. (He's no different to anyone else really in this respect)



  • #153
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118659978#Comment_118659978

    Exactly, either play by their rules or no game for you. The argument that you can just start your own is long dead, even for someone as wealthy as Rogan.



  • #154
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118661546#Comment_118661546

    And so it has been since day dot.

    Even the sitting President who claimed to be one of the wealthiest business men on the planet (debatable) couldn't just spout nonsense or have it his own way.

    Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of consequence or that other people have to put their company/product/business/reputation at risk just to accommodate you.



  • #155
    AllForIt
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118661829#Comment_118661829

    The' former' sitting president I guess you meant. Freudian slip.



  • #156
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118661838#Comment_118661838

    He was sitting President when he was kicked off it.

    A Freudian slip in relation to him would have been if I suggested that they had 'eliminated him', rather than they 'eliminated his account'.



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  • #157
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,392 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118614662#Comment_118614662

    I have to admit that I'm at a loss as to what the whole hoo hah is about myself. Rogan's show is just people talking in a freeform conversation and, frankly, it's usually a million times more interesting than any late night American talk show where guest are there simply to hock their latest bit of crap.

    Rogan's show reminds me of what the Late Late used to be like before the 90's, or if we stay with the US, something like Dick Cavett. It's guests on talking about something.

    You don't have to buy everything they or Rogan says and, in many cases, it's obvious why. But, at least, it's often an absorbing conversation.



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