When the story first broke about the censorship war aimed at Joe Rogan, I admit I thought here we go again just one more victim of the “thought police”. Wrong think and wrong speak seems to be the gravest of crimes in the 1984 dystopian world that we now inhabit. Self censorship is the order of the day.
However, we should never normalise or accept this criminal act against the people, without free speech you do not have freedom it is as simple as that. We are currently witnessing the fall out globally of this insidious practice.
I digress, now back to the Joe Rogan Experience….
It all began with a handful of musicians, including Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen’s guitarist Nils Lofgren and Joni Mitchell, pulling their music catalogues from Spotify, in an effort to force Spotify to choose between their music or Rogan’s podcast. Author Brené Brown joined the protest, stating she wouldn’t release new episodes of her Spotify-exclusive podcasts “until further notice.”
Spotify agreed to remove Neil Young’s music and announced “new rules” designed to “combat” the spread of COVID “misinformation” on its platform.
However, the backlash continues to intensify. Civil rights groups organised a boycott, advertisers pull their campaigns, a hashtag trends. The platform’s employees threaten to walk out. Days later, Spotify’s Chief Executive is forced to choose between barring a popular creator – and face the fury of his fans – (the “Joe Rogan Experience” reaches a reported average 11m people per podcast) or being seen as a hypocrite and an “enabler of dangerous behaviour”.
But what is the cause of the outpouring of rage and retaliation from those within the music industry what triggered these artists into undertaking such extreme action? The answer 2 Podcasts featuring experts holding alternative views to Covid-19 – strange isn’t it ? Read on all will be revealed…..
What Used to be Misinformation, Now Accepted as Fact
According to Rogan’s 10-minute video, his podcast was accused of “spreading dangerous misinformation,” citing specifically his interviews with Dr. Peter McCullough and one with Dr. Robert Malone.”
Dr. Peter McCullough is a Cardiologist, the most published physician in his field in history. Dr. Robert Malone owns 9 patents on the creation of mRNA vaccine technology and is at least partly responsible for the creation of the technology that led to mRNA vaccines.
Joe Rogan stated “I am not interested in talking to people who have only one perspective, and I also have a problem with the term misinformation.
- For instance, 8 months ago if you said if you get vaccinated you can still catch COVID and you can still 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 on social media. Now that’s openly, repeatedly stated on CNN.
- If you said, I 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 as Newsweek.”
Rogan said all of those theories that “at one point in time” were banned, were openly discussed by McCullough and Malone who were accused of spreading dangerous misinformation.
“I’m not trying to promote misinformation, I’m not trying to be controversial. I’ve never tried to do anything with this podcast other than just talk to people and have interesting conversations.”……
Those interesting conversations that Rogan has been having since 2009 have built up a massive following, people clearly enjoy those conversations and in a free democratic society people have the right to choose what they see and hear. But of course as many of us have come to realise we are not living in a free or democratic society this is an illusion created by the political class and their “bullhorn” corporate media.
But who are the “thought police”? who belongs to this network? and how do they wield such huge power over every aspect of our lives?
Very important questions are they not? This goes far deeper than a few ancient musicians having a hissy fit – time to delve deeper.
Powerful Vested Interests at Play?
Saagar Enjeti, Washington correspondent at The Hill, said there could be more going on behind the scenes. Investment firms who own the music catalogues — and who also have ties to pharmaceutical companies — may be calling the shots.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Z-AEmqvyikM
“The people speaking out may be doing so organically, but it also happens to coincide with the financial oligarchic interests of some very, very rich people,” Enjeti said in a “Breaking Points” episode that took a “deep dive into the hedge funds behind the campaign by Neil Young and others to cancel Rogan and boost other music services such as Amazon music.”
In the video posted on YouTube on Jan. 31, Enjeti said there is more than meets the eye when it comes to musicians like Young pulling their catalogues from Spotify.
“Who is demanding this? is it Neil Young or is it the people who own his music?”
“You see a recent trend in the music business is that iconic artists such a Neil Young sell their catalogues to big-money groups who then reap the profits in perpetuity. Young sold his catalogue in Jan. 2021 to a company called Hipgnosis. Now Hipgnosis is a $1 billion company that recently announced an ownership agreement with Blackstone.”
Blackstone is focused on taking over single-family housing and turning America into a nation of renters, but it also has interests everywhere [You’ll Own nothing and you’ll be happy?].
“Blackstone, BlackRock and these big private equity giants are ruthless in their pursuit of profits and they’re savvy political players who know how to play the game.” “They have all sorts of ties to the pharmaceutical industry, including announcing the former CEO and chairman of Pfizer would be joining Blackstone as a senior advisor.”
“Do you really think it’s a coincidence that days after Neil Young’s music was pulled off of Spotify he debuts a 4-month free trial to any person who wants to sign up for Amazon music — who has struggled to gain market share and has long-standing connections with all of the big money people in the game?”
At first it was simple, just Neil Young taking a stand.
Now a lot of people with big money and a big agenda who would just so happen to profit if Rogan went down are speaking out. “Joni Mitchell stood in solidarity with Neil Young.”
Mitchell on Sept. 13, 2021, struck a publishing deal with Reservoir Media, Inc. (RMI). The top 10 owners of RMI are large private equity and investment firms. Lofgren, who announced he was joining fellow musicians Mitchell and Young in their Spotify boycott, also does not own his music catalogue.
Lofgren’s catalogue was purchased on Dec. 16, 2021, by Sony Entertainment. The top 10 owners of Sony Group Corp. are large investment firms.
Enjeti said people better hold on to their seats and “hope that Joe prevails on this one,” as he is up against more powerful interests than many realize.
Analysis
So there you have it yet again we see powerful corporate interests controlling what we are “allowed” to see, hear, think and speak. The same “cabal of corporate interests” time and again crushing our freedoms with their giant globalist jackboots.
Where in history have we seen this before?
Will Spotify/Rogan be able to withstand the pressure? Who knows? They have already apologised, put in new rules and removed dozens of episodes of the podcast – if they continue down this path they will be crushed completely – from both sides.
You give into the mob, you give them an inch, they will just keep coming until you have nothing left….
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1267225087041338 – (6.20)
More to come on this evolving story….
https://www.instagram.com/p/CZYQ_nDJi6G/
https://www.blackstone.com/news/press/blackstone-and-hipgnosis-song-management-launch-1-billion-partnership-to-invest-in-songs-recorded-music-music-ip-and-royalties/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/cnns-brian-stelter-people-trusting-joe-rogan-newsrooms-like-cnn-problem-much-bigger-spotify-video/
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/joe-rogan-musicians-threaten-remove-music-spotify/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=cec92799-a918-4197-b82b-b8a6fd6c898f
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/31/technology/joe-rogan-spotify-controversy.html
https://unitynewsnetwork.co.uk/own-nothing-be-happy-the-new-normal/
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