Spotify employees threaten to strike if Joe Rogan podcasts aren’t edited/removed

Re:Spotify employees threaten to strike if Joe Rogan podcast... by disown on Friday September 25, 2020 @10:09PM (#24595885)

> The JRE is entertainment in the same sense that Last Week Tonight is entertainment. Yes, it is intended to be entertaining, but it also tries to sell itself as being informative.

Informative isn't the same thing as factual. And you have to be an absolute moron to take anything John Oliver says seriously. But I don't think HBO should ban him. Funny how nobody is demanding John Oliver to be banned and yet, he involves himself in american politics and he's from britain. But even still, I don't think he should be banned.

> As a second point, Joe Rogan is now effectively an employee (or contractor if you prefer) of Spotify. Spotify is paying him a lot of money to run his show on the Spotify platform.

Spotify is selling a product ( JRE ) on their platform. Doesn't make the product an employee of spotify. But maybe I'm wrong. But that makes it even worse since spotify employees are threatening a fellow employee.

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Re:Spotify employees threaten to strike if Joe Rogan podcast... by iamdbtoo on Saturday September 26, 2020 @12:26AM (#24596407)

This kind of thinking from JRE fans is exactly why the show is problematic to me. You just made inaccurate statements about the credibility of various media companies and figures while also using that as evidence Joe Rogan is better while also stating he’s just entertainment and shouldn’t be expected to be factual.

You have crafted a new reality to justify your position and that’s exactly what Joe Rogan did when he falsely accused leftists of starting those fires.

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Re:Spotify employees threaten to strike if Joe Rogan podcast... by failuser on Friday September 25, 2020 @10:16PM (#24595913)

Will it protect them from a big fat lawsuit?

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Re:Spotify employees threaten to strike if Joe Rogan podcast... by baseballdork on Friday September 25, 2020 @11:23PM (#24596166)

> And you have to be an absolute moron to take anything John Oliver says seriously. But I don't think HBO should ban him.

Well I guess I'm a moron. I thought his show on the Uighurs in China was pretty informative.

> Funny how nobody is demanding John Oliver to be banned and yet, he involves himself in american politics and he's from britain.

John Oliver is an American citizen that lives in America. Who cares where he was born?

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Re:Spotify employees threaten to strike if Joe Rogan podcast... by verall on Saturday September 26, 2020 @12:20AM (#24596388)

> Who cares where he was born?

Some people do, obviously. In this case, it's a bit on the nose...

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