Looks like around 71 episodes of JRE have been removed by Spotify today https://t.co/RvtQgYFjdK
— Tim Pool (@Timcast) February 5, 2022
It’s been confirmed that Spotify has begun deleting podcasts from the Joe Russian – sorry, I mean Joe Rogan (getting my wars confused here) – archive.
I don’t really know what this means, exactly. I don’t know why they wouldn’t just ban him outright, if they are going to bend to this degree.
Again: no one requested that they delete the archive. Everyone is requesting that Rogan be completely silenced. That is the request of the entire media and of the White House itself.
This comes after Spotify banned some alleged 20,000 non-Rogan podcasts that they said were disagreeing with Anthony Fauci. Again, no one was requesting that. This doesn’t make Spotify look like they’re a reasonable company looking for a compromise – it just makes them look weak.
But while they were deleting the podcasts, they were also claiming that they had no editorial control over Rogan, because they’re only a publisher. But they had the editorial control to delete 20,000 non-Rogan podcasts, and now they have the editorial control to delete Rogan’s archive. So they’ve lost any ability to claim “oh but we just can’t delete anything though.”
Thus far, neither Rogan nor Spotify has commented on the deletion of archived episodes.
The deletions come amidst the media finally deciding to release the n-word tapes of Joe Russian.
If I had to guess right now, it looks like Rogan is probably going to lose World War Rogan.
The biggest question right now is what exactly is in his contract. Will he be allowed to broadcast somewhere else if Spotify fires him?