Re:Spotify continues to remove Joe Rogan episodes
by bigmattystyles on Friday April 09, 2021 @05:20PM
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There's a another group - ephemeral online mobs - People not involved with the content at hand in any way, shape or form contribute to a reactionary admonition and I'm sure businesses just want to avoid the controversy altogether. I don't know about Rogan for instance, but Hulu removed 4 episodes of sunny because of racist caricatures. They certainly were racist but the joke was on the characters using the caricatures. It's a silly example but nuance be damned. I don't think Spotify thinks its censoring anything, they just don't want trouble.
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Re:Spotify continues to remove Joe Rogan episodes
by lotsofpulp on Friday April 09, 2021 @05:47PM
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The Sunny in Philadelphia thing makes no sense at all. Supposedly, Tina Fey pre-emptively asked to remove some of her own 30 rock episodes and that caused others to need to look like they’re doing something lest they be caught up in a PR storm. Makes zero sense in the context of comedies using it as the butt of jokes though.
Re:Spotify continues to remove Joe Rogan episodes
by reducesuffering on Friday April 09, 2021 @06:41PM
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That was the canary in the coal mine for me that activist mob outrage is getting out of hand. Another case of Gell Mann amnesia. When it’s a topic I’m extremely familiar with, the preemptive removal or outrage doesn’t make any sense.
Those episodes literally had a discussion about the problems of blackface, and the point of the show is that the characters are terrible people and that’s why the characters did it.[0]
Like you said, all nuance is lost in proactively defending against the online activist mob and we lose good discussion in the process.