Jon Stewart sides with Joe Rogan as more artists leave Spotify: 'This overreaction is a mistake'

[catsudon]

“I’m more worried about the algorithm of misinformation than the purveyor of misinformation,” he added. “Misinformation will always be out there, but if the algorithm drives people further and further down the rabbit hole, the algorithm is the amplifier and the catalyst of extremism.”

i don't know , he made some good points, but then again , i think it is waste of money anyway when you can steal music for free.

[hlthe2b]

1. I love Stewart, but he's wrong on this.

[PortTack]

3. Same...can't see the forrest for the trees in this case

[Cha]

37. Jon Stewart is Very Wrong on

his view ot the "Purveyor of MISinformation".. imo

[durablend]

2. Tra lalalalala

"If we just try to UNDERSTAND them, maybe we can change things"

Have you been sleeping the past half decade Jon?

[iemanja]

4. Isn't Stewart sympathetic to anti-vaxxers?

I seem to remember some early anti-vaxx comments.

[rogue emissary]

9. On the Late Show he promoted the lie that COVID came from a Chinese lab.

[Zeitghost]

15. The lab leak hypothesis

Has gained quite a bit of credibility. It's not proven, but it seems to be a reasonable option for the origin of the pandemic.

Which goes to show the short sighted foolishness of these social media censorship policies. A year ago you could get banned from platforms for talking about the lab leak hypothesis, now it is being discussed by serious scientists as a credible theory.

[shrike3]

20. His reasoning, though

There are bats here in the U.S., and we don't get viruses from them. Um -- different species of bats? I saw that whole rant of his and was not impressed. Even Colbert looked askance.

[randr]

5. Stealing is not free

The artist loses. If you love music enough to steal for it you should be willing to show respect to the artist that created it.

[Corgigal]

8. Great comment.

Like I was trying to tell my adult kids, I’m paying for Showtime because I want the people who made, acted and filmed Dexter to be paid.

It’s almost a foreign concept to people now. Let artists earn a living, please.

[shrike3]

22. I have many friends in the creative field.

The attitude, at all levels, is "look at the exposure you'll get."

A songwriter I know crowed about finally making a few bucks on Spotify. He said, "I'm just glad my songs are heard." I said, "If you're fine with it, okay. But it's my opinion that artists should be paid."
I

[Cuthbert Allgood]

13. Agree on the thoughts. Spotify is horrible for paying artists, though.

It takes a ridiculous amount of plays of a song for them to get a paltry sum. They get like $0.003 per stream.

[lame54]

24. 1 Million streams equals...

Approx: $4000

[Mosby]

14. The artists get next to nothing from streaming.

Just saying, I don't agree with "stealing" songs. But the whole industry is f-ed up.

[catsudon]

18. it was more in jest. in regardimg to music

they practically give it out for free from youtubes, and other 'free' social media.

[brooklynite]

6. "you can steal music for free"

Yes, you can. Why should you?

[BeckyDem]

7. I'm not sure I understand Jon and Glenn Greenwald, another critic, are alarmed about.

Pandemics are deadly, this one sure is and so yea, people can overreact and civil liberties are essential to a functioning gov.

What I saw was one artist said, its me or Rogan, you can't have both. Would I have put it that way? No. It is better to just leave a platform that allows for lies, and not only that but Rogan is paid 100 million because Spotify determined he is a GREAT INFLUENCER. They just don't care about why....at least not until they began losing revenue.

Why is any artist not free to disassociate with a liar? Rogan has referred to himself as a moron too...take him at his word.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

10. An algorithm of misinformation can't work unless someone is purveying it, wtf.

[Vinca]

11. I disagree. We have to somehow get back to a sane society where uttering lies for money

and ultimately killing people is not acceptable. It doesn't matter if it's Spotify or Faux news. Some media purveyors will allow anything to turn a buck and that's exactly what Spotify is doing.

[Scrivener7]

12. No, John. You're wrong.

[UTUSN]

16. I realize he has a fan base here, which I submit is rooted in his early years.

Like when Tweety and RUSSERT came from being branded as strong Democrats while active in politics, and we cheered them into media as ours, but in their media career became, or showed themselves to be at first "pragmatic" but then openly sided too much with Shrub and retroactively with RAYGUN, but continued to trade off of carrying the "Democratic" label, long after they had betrayed it too much and too often.

I remember how, after many here were clear about Tweety's perfidy, there would pop up defenders, who clearly had not kept up with his changes.

No way do I call STEWART a wingnut, certainly not in the Tweety/RUSSERT stage, but, something in the Third Way or collaborator class. I'll admit to having had confusion about him for a time: First, I accepted and liked him as a full Lib in those early years when he almost exclusively skewered wingnuts, but then came his Crossfire episode, then his Glen BecKKK matching rally, then his reaching out to O'LOOFAH, and I had enough of my confusion and of giving him the benefit of my doubt. No, not a wingnut, but something like Third Way or No Labels or collaborator.

To his fans who will rain outrage on me here, it's been done here before, so just don't. You can't change my mind and I can't change yours. I have my space and you yours.

[lame54]

26. I was at that Rally...

It was amazing!

Extremely entertaining
Not overly political except for his not great final speech

He struggled with what he wanted to say

But it was fun and the Yuge crowd had a great time

[UTUSN]

30. I saw parts of it on t.v. to make up my own mind on things. "Not overtly political" -

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"Not overtly political" - that's the problem and back then the word, both about his rally and BecKKK's, was that both sets of their fans were disappointed for not flying the flag for their fan bases.

BecKKK had hyped it as bringing the country together, healing the great divide. And STEWART, while not exactly saying the same thing, followed suit.

*******That's the point: Both of them were KNOWN for their political bent. And the separate fan bases wanted it as a clarion call, respectively.

Clearly, BecKKK's pseudo-religious delusion was utterly transparent as snake oil. And very soon afterward he was back at his same b.s.

STEWART did a namby-pamby version - with the MythBuster nerds, Hippie Dippy blowing bubbles, and FeelGoodism, semi-Renaissance Fair.

*** O.K., if somebody wants/likes entertainment for entertainment's sake, fine for them. It's not what some of us political junkies were looking for from STEWART. I mean, everybody knows BecKKK is a delusional fraud, no surprise there.

But STEWART was known for his *skewering*, so that's what I would expect and want from him. A DUer said about Tweety, "WHEN he's on our side, there's nobody better," and I'd halfway echo that about STEWART, not the part of "nobody's better" because that's what I'd say about COLBERT.

*** Now here's where I'll dig myself deeper, because back at the time, MAHER said to and about the STEWART rally, "If you're going to have a rally it needs to be *ABOUT* something." --- I say, digging deeper, because MAHER is on a shit list with a tight coterie here.

This is the first time I've seen the take that STEWART's rally was great entertainment and fun. As I saw the faces in the crowd while the hippy dippy stuff was going on, all I saw was: DISAPPOINTMENT, maybe even crestfallen.

*** Now to dig myself even deeper, as this dispute has played out here before, I'll say that COLBERT obviously has a long, personal history with STEWART and will probably never break that bond, but if COLBERT had put on that rally it would have been very clear and ABOUT politics.

The rest of my list against STEWART stands for me and I don't care what he says about anything, even if little bits might be a dig or two against wingnuts, any more than I care about Joe LIEBERMAN.

When I want pure entertainment for entertainment's sake I'll look at things dedicated to that. No harm no foul in my post Replying here. Cheers!

[lame54]

31. I looked up hippy dippy and you're right...

It means 2 bald scientists

[UTUSN]

33. It does? - the only reference I know is from CARLIN's "hippie dippy weatherman" bit.

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And here's more room for me digging my hole deeper - I never liked CARLIN or COSBY. both of whom were idolized by my true Hippie pals back in the '70s, which is actually past the true Hippie days.

[lame54]

34. Your hole's so deep...

We can put an outhouse on it

[UTUSN]

35. Well, since I'm more clueless here with every Reply to me, better go on my way!1

But will use up the last defense - a *grammar* barb: "Your (possessive), not "You're" (contraction for you-are)!1

[lame54]

36. Nice katch

[UTUSN]

38. 'twas nothing, but thanks. And we're even 'cause I think I misspelled "hippie" - am correcting it.

I think that "hippy" would refer to wide hips (adjective), while the "-ie" form (noun) is for the Middle Class semi-rebels, no?

I am in the process of correcting it everywhere I mentioned it. I sense we had a good time, no hard feelings!

[lame54]

39. None

[Mosby]

17. What does he mean with "algorithm"?

Is he referring to FB? What does Spotify have to do with it?

[Dr. Strange]

19. Spotify does recommendations too.

Based on your listening history, they'll have a list of songs/podcasts that you might like.

[lame54]

28. In other words - down the rabbit hole you go

[turbinetree]

21. Wrong John....try again.....

[muriel_volestrangler]

23. The "algorithm" is surely Spotify in this case. They've invested $100m in Rogan

and so try to get people to listen, to recoup their money via ads, or getting subscriptions on the basis that they give access to Rogan and his misinformation. They are going to encourage any subscriber to listen to Rogan, "driving them further down the rabbit hole".

So, unless there's been some new development I'm unaware of, I can't see what the "overreaction" is. Some artists have said "I don't want to associate with Spotify and its employment of Rogan and his misinformation." Why is that "overreaction"? It's not like they're making it any harder for someone to listen to Rogan.

It seems to me Stewart is wrong in all ways. Disappointing.

[PTWB]

25. There's no real reason to pirate music anymore.

The sheer convenience, selection and affordability offered by the giant streaming services is too great a value. "Free" pirating of music isn't free when you calculate how much time it costs you to locate, download, manage, and store that music.

[cinematicdiversions]

45. Yeah I am not seeing myself going to the trouble

Of downloading 47k songs.

[Jose Garcia]

27. I always knew he was a right-winger

[meadowlander]

29. He wasn't siding with Joe Rogan. He was saying the solution is engagement not ultimatums.

Here's the actual video for context.

I actually agree with him. Neil Young should have kept his content on Spotify and written a great song about why Rogan is wrong instead of trying to use his clout to silence him. What has that accomplished except making more people aware of Joe Rogan? You can't run a platform where the content is decided by what the richest and most influential people think should be allowed as public discourse or otherwise they will take their ball and go home.

We're all posting on an internet full of some of the vilest thoughts and sentiments constructed by the human brain but the solution isn't to refuse to post on the internet. It's to engage the real people we know so they don't feel compelled to buy into the rubbish.

[muriel_volestrangler]

40. So you think Young should continue to make money for Spotify?

Well, that needs some explaining from you.

He should "write a great song". Well, if he did that, then it would have a similar effect to him saying "I won't partner with Spotify, since they spread disinformation for profit, with Rogan". But reach a far smaller audience than those who have heard the news stories about Spotify.

"Trying to use his clout to silence him" - well, it wouldn't be "silencing him", it would be "not enabling him to profit from killing people". Rogan still gets to help people to die, but Young and others don't partner with his partner in this dangerous bullshit.

"What has that accomplished except making more people aware of Joe Rogan?" That Rogan and Spotify are spreading deadly BS is something that should be widely known. Even Spotify tried to do something to look better by linking to some real facts about Covid alongside Rogan's crap.

"You can't run a platform where the content is decided by what the richest and most influential people think should be allowed as public discourse or otherwise they will take their ball and go home." - the richest and most influential person here is Rogan, with that $100 million.

"We're all posting on an internet full of some of the vilest thoughts and sentiments constructed by the human brain but the solution isn't to refuse to post on the internet. " I don't think you understand the difference between "the internet" and "business contracts between Young and Spotify, and Rogan and Spotify". I'm not sure you understand what the internet is, for that matter.

[meadowlander]

42. Why don't you take it down a notch? We're all on the same side here.

Yes. I think Neil Young has a contract with Spotify and Joe Rogan has a contract with Spotify and the one thing has nothing to do with the other any more than Stephen Colbert is on Comcast and Fox News is on Comcast therefore, what, Stephen Colbert should set up his own cable company until Comcast agrees to drop Fox?

We're in the situation we're in because, instead of speaking to the argument that the other person is making, we insist on fragmenting into smaller and smaller echo chambers until we reach a circle where everyone agrees with us about everything.

Neil Young could have objected to what Joe Rogan was saying without threatening to pull his catalogue and Spotify may well have done the same thing adding content warnings. He could have gotten a group of celebrities together to petition Spotify to change its policy on dangerous content and that could have been even more effective. Or he could have encouraged his fans to put together a petition.

We don't know. Because he issued a public ultimatum instead and if Spotify had agreed then they would be put in the position of becoming the content police every time one celebrity has a problem with another. Ariana Grande decides she can't be on Spotify because it's inconsistent with her vegan values to be on the same platform as Weird Al Yankovich's song about Spam? Justin Bieber threatens to pull his catalogue unless Spotify pulls Black Sabbath? No more Marilyn Manson songs because Taylor Swift thinks they promote school shootings?

This is not how you get social progress done.

[muriel_volestrangler]

43. I think you're living in a wonderland of Spotify making its business decisions based on

people making arguments about what is best for society. It's a capitalist venture, it does what it does based on what makes it profit. People, including famous ones, had already criticized Spotify for promoting Rogan, and they had done fuck all apart from count the money as it came back to them. It takes the loss of a revenue stream for them to pay attention. By some arguments, that's the only way they can legally act, since they are obliged to maximize profit for shareholders.

The point about Rogan content is that it contributes to death. There have been perhaps 200,000 preventable deaths in the USA this year, largely because of an amazing death cult, promoted by Republicans and Rogan. You think it's about popstars' feelings, and Spotify would be happy to have a chat with Rogan, and Rogan would be happy to change his ways because people say he's an idiot.

Your slippery slope arguments are ridiculous, and a poor attempt at trivializing the death cult.

[budkin]

32. Jon "Both Sides" Stewart

He's no longer relevant and that has to sting.

[Spider Jerusalem]

41. Jon Stewart has been insufferably smug for years; he can fuck off back to wherever he's been hiding

[FreepFryer]

44. Does Stewart have a Spotify podcast yet, or is he angling for one?

We can walk and chew gum at the same time. When he leads a campaign against the algorithm, we will focus on that too.

No more enabling of purveyors of deadly misinformation.

[struggle4progress]

46. Clips of podcaster using N-word

BY RYAN GAJEWSKI
FEBRUARY 4, 2022 10:16PM

India Arie is delving further into her ire over Joe Rogan’s Spotify presence by sharing resurfaced footage to social media that appears to show Rogan previously using the N-word.

Arie wrote via Instagram on Monday that she would be joining Neil Young and other artists in walking away from Spotify by asking for her music and podcasts to be pulled from the popular streaming service. At the time, Arie explained that she finds Rogan “problematic for reasons other than his Covid interviews,” adding, “For me it’s also his language around race” ...

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/india-arie-joe-rogan-n-word-spotify-battle-1235087663/

[Owl]

47. Stewart is wrong.

[muriel_volestrangler]

48. Comment from a doctor:

Link to tweet

"With all due respect to Jon Stewart, the name I hear most often when a parent or patient tells me where they heard something that makes them not want the Covid vaccine is the Spotify podcaster, so I’m not inclined to contribute to the profits of the company that pays him."

[BootinUp]

49. nonsense. so dont believe our lying ears?

The world is what we make it. How about some of that.

[NurseJackie]

50. Sounds like something that Bill Maher would say.

Is Jon Stewart following Dennis Miller's career path into a black hole of irrelevance and obscurity?

[obamanut2012]

51. Yeah, I thought the same thing

I have loathed Maher for years, and it's really disappointing to see Stewart act like this, too.