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Podcast host Joe Rogan has spoken out amid a celebrity boycott aimed at getting his show taken off of Spotify due to its supposed “COVID misinformation.”
In a 10-minute response video, Rogan perfectly explained why attempts to ban and crack down on “misinformation” are so harmful and misguided.
“The problem I have with the term misinformation, especially today, is that many of the things we thought of as ‘misinformation’ just a short while ago are now accepted as fact,” Rogan said. “Like, for instance, eight months ago if you said ‘if you get vaccinated you can still catch COVID and spread COVID,’ you would be removed from social media, they would ban you from certain platforms. Now that’s accepted as fact.”
“If you said, ‘I don’t think cloth masks work,’ you would be banned from social media,” he continued. “Now, that’s openly and repeatedly stated on CNN. If you said you think it’s possible that COVID-19 came from a lab, you would be banned from many social media platforms. Now that’s on the cover of Newsweek.”
“I do not know [which experts] are right,” Rogan concluded. “I’m not a doctor. I’m not a scientist. I’m just a person who sits down and talks to people and has conversations with them.”
I stand with Rogan in this. Don't listen to his show or know him from Adam, but it's about fucking time we stopped trying to silence people with a different point of view.
In a 10-minute response video, Rogan perfectly explained why attempts to ban and crack down on “misinformation” are so harmful and misguided.
“The problem I have with the term misinformation, especially today, is that many of the things we thought of as ‘misinformation’ just a short while ago are now accepted as fact,” Rogan said. “Like, for instance, eight months ago if you said ‘if you get vaccinated you can still catch COVID and spread COVID,’ you would be removed from social media, they would ban you from certain platforms. Now that’s accepted as fact.”
“If you said, ‘I don’t think cloth masks work,’ you would be banned from social media,” he continued. “Now, that’s openly and repeatedly stated on CNN. If you said you think it’s possible that COVID-19 came from a lab, you would be banned from many social media platforms. Now that’s on the cover of Newsweek.”
“I do not know [which experts] are right,” Rogan concluded. “I’m not a doctor. I’m not a scientist. I’m just a person who sits down and talks to people and has conversations with them.”
I stand with Rogan in this. Don't listen to his show or know him from Adam, but it's about fucking time we stopped trying to silence people with a different point of view.
