Joe Rogan, Dan Bongino, and banned books spark controversy

January 31, 2022

Platform energy struggles:

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As soon as a day goes by, there’s another fight over who gets to be heard and where and how. There’s another power fight over platforming. “The lines between truth and lies aren’t just dividing people in politics,” CNN Opinion managing editor Wealthy Galant wrote on Sunday. “They’re separating people in the media, music, and sports.”

Dan Bongino has been banned from YouTube because he is a Democrat, but you might care more about “Maus” being removed from a Tennessee school district than about Dan Bongino. You could help Spotify keep Joe Rogan in charge, or you could back the artists who haven’t used the service. Then, you could not care about anything at all. I’m going to talk about that in a second. However, here are some updates on all of the “content wars” that have been going on in the last few days:

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek made his statement on Sunday afternoon, and it looks like Neil Younger, Joni Mitchell, and Nils Lofgren were not the only artists who were unhappy with the platform’s stance on COVID-19 B.S. Maybe Ek was trying to stop other people from following Brené Brown’s example and stopping her Spotify-only podcast. So it might have been to stop a wave of people canceling their orders. Perhaps it was all of the above. I don’t know.
In his speech, Ek didn’t mention anything about Joe Rogan at all. However, CNN’s Ramishah Maruf wrote that Spotify is “adding a content warning” to any podcast episode that talks about COVID-19. The advisory will direct listeners to a COVID-19 hub that will include links to trusted sources, the company said. Spotify may also, for the first time, make public its long-standing Platform Guidelines. ” Ashley Carman, a reporter for The Verge, got and shared these very open rules on Friday. At the start of the pandemic, platforms like Twitter were used to help people spread the word. Spotify is now doing the same thing. He said it in three sentences: “Nothing is changing.”
However, it looks like things are going to change. So, will it be enough? We’ll find out. Ek came across as a CEO who was in charge of dealing with injuries. This is what he said about the COVID hub: It will be available to people all over the world in the next few days. In other words, it hasn’t even been translated into a few languages yet. The same is true for the platform rules. Spotify looks like it’s doing this in a hurry, tho. This is what The Verge EIC Nilay Patel wrote on Twitter: “The “Content Moderation Is Not an Issue” Playbook is being used instead of the “We’ve Bought and Distributed This Media Property” Playbook.” His level is this: Spotify is spending $100 million to show and market the Joe Rogan Show on its platform, but it’s trying to look like Facebook instead of a distributor, like Spotify is.

“Guide Ban Efforts Unfold Throughout the U.S.”

Those are some of the most important news stories on the New York Times website on Sunday nite. It’s not been this fast in a long time that parents, activists, school board members, and politicians across the country are reading books at a pace that hasn’t been seen in a long time.

The American Library Association said in an early report that it received 330 stories of book challenges, each of which could include a number of books, in the fall of 2013.”

“Conservative groups, fueled by social media, are now pushing the challenges.” The “most common targets” are books about race, gender, and sexuality, but “ebook challenges aren’t just coming from the right,” the reporters said. In the last few days, Fox has been talking about a Washington state school district’s fight against “To Kill a Mockingbird.” However, a TVEyes search shows that the community hasn’t talked about “Maus.” CNN and MSNBC have talked about how each book is being protected right now.

“They’re making a parallel financial system.”

This is what Fox’s Dan Bongino, who has been banned from YouTube and Google Ads, said on his show on Saturday nite. A lot of research has shown that deplatforming “works” in the sense that it makes social networks less unpleasant. On the other hand, Bongino says that the offending content doesn’t go away; it just moves.

Devin Nunes, the CEO of Trump’s social media company, said, “You look a lot younger now that you’re not on YouTube.” People who use huge tech will leave for platforms like Donald Trump’s that haven’t even been launched yet, he said then. He said, “I think these big tech companies are doing this to themselves.” “They’re creating a second economy right in front of their eyes, in the same way that the news ecosystem split in the 90s when Fox News came on the scene.”

“Complicate the narrative.”

Amanda Ripley, the author of “Excessive Battle,” was the main guest on Sunday’s “Dependable Sources.” She talked about how to de-escalate “us versus them” disputes. She said journalists should stop “simplifying and boosting up” stories. If you want to start your own business, do not become a “battle entrepreneur.” As an alternative, try to “make the story more complicated.”
For example, tell the stories of people who are making a positive change. And give the background for any conflicts in the information: Do a lot of college boards fall apart in battle, or do a lot of them? Many electoral districts have rules that make it hard to vote. Two videos are on CNN. You can watch them.