Re:Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence
by snet0 on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @09:09PM
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Nobody has a right to be heard. He has a right to speak. People like Rogan have a megaphone and are choosing who to give it to. Would you choose Alex Jones?
Re:Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence
by noptd on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @10:13PM
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Sure, Alex Jones is a crackpot but why should you, or anyone for that matter, be allowed to prevent others from speaking to an audience that has decided to listen?
What do you expect to happen when the balance of power, majority opinion, etc inevitably shifts and we find ourselves on the other side?
Re:Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence
by effingwewt on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @11:22PM
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I don't think we should choose who gets to speak. What happens when you end up on the wrong-thinking side?
If you want to play the pedant fine, he has a right to speak.
But if people like you would stop judging who gets to speak and where we wouldn't have to depend on Joe Rogan's megaphone, now would we?
'So and so is bad, I heard it from X' has never been good for any human society.
Pretending the episodes don't exist is rewriting history.
'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.'
Personal point- if I saw Alex Jones personally I would not want to be him. He has, for his own enrichment, destroyed personal relationships, caused me endless arguments with friends/family and is a walking detrament to society. I hate with a passion the garbage he spews to sell some garbage fake pills. But I still believe he has a right to be heard.
We need to educate people not shelter them.