Spotify needs to find a better curator of pots.
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Just so long as the crackpot gets to spew their dangerous bs unchallenged- he’s happy.
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And monetising it. At least, I think they drop ads into non-premium users listening to podcasts.
William Gibson wrote a great short essay a couple of decades ago collected in Distrust that Particular Flavour examining the change that the idea that you could listen to dead people, and dead people’s music has and will have on our relationship with lots of things.
You can really see it in TikTok, if you spend much time hearing TT videos, weird stuff from their parents’ youths like Pavement or Blondie bubble to the top and go viral. While the media would like to talk about someone like say Pink Pantheress who makes TT ready songs it’s not a huge part of the market. the dominant slice of the market.
This article here is pretty stark,
I don’t agree with all of it, either the most negative nor the most positive elements. Actually particularly the utopian ideas at the end: music has always been technologically/capital mediated and dependent, whether that be the vast size of the transept in Notre Dame cathedral that Leonin and Perotin legeraged for the Western rediscovery of harmony or the very obvious development from simple loops to slice to midi that turned the usage of the Amen break from straightforward breakbeats to the most far out jungle and drum and bass in a matter of a couple of years.
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Joy Reid just said something interesting about the relationship between Joe Rogan and Spotify as compared to most other podcasters.
They are his publishers. They have responsibility here that other platforms don’t have.
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India Arie has joined the growing protest over Joe Rogan’s penchant for peddling misinformation on Spotify—and she’s added further fuel to the outrage by pointing out his “problematic” comments about race. . . . “Neil Young opened a door that I must walk through,” Arie wrote, adding: “I believe in freedom of speech. However, I find Joe Rogan problematic for reasons other than his Covid interviews. For me, it’s also his language around race.” (In an interview with Jordan Peterson last week, Rogan argued that he had at least some understanding of Black identity because he is Italian.)
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Spotify made a statement to their employees. It seems they are attempting to use Rogan like SiriusXM used Stern. They said they have bold ambitions and Rogan is their path to achieving those ambitions.
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I can think of 100 million reasons that it is.
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But deciding that this asshat’s opinions are worth $100m surely must equal endorsement.
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They’re publishers in this case. And have increased liability for any harm he causes.
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Guessing he has a share or two in Spotify.
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Could be? Although his show is on Apple TV, so…
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I mean - he supported Dave Chappelle too. Saying he didn’t mean harm🤷♀️
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Plus there’s that weird rant where he supported xenophobic claims the virus came form a lab in China.
Dude got massively rich as an entertainer on corporate TV. No surprise really that he’s not the liberal hero many would like him to be.
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Yeah… there is also his work on behalf of the 9/11 first responders, which I really do think was important. But yeah, that was a WTF? moment.
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I agree that it was important, and likely heartfelt, but it also garnered him a lot of good publicity. 
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