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OT: American Politics

axlsalinger said:
It's just a few books, you won't even notice.
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for the stupid lurkers who cannot make the connection, can you please explain how consumers exercising their choice about which streaming service they intend to use will lead to... I think you are suggesting the burning of books?

or, alternatively, how a songwriter exercising his intellectual property rights... leads to burning books?

I mean I'm all for an entertaining slippery slope and all but you've lost me here.

now, there are some great examples from the Southern US of folks actually trying to remove books from libraries because they dislike their content, which clearly is small fries compared to a few folks boycotting a corporation?
 
Wayward DP said:
for the stupid lurkers who cannot make the connection, can you please explain how consumers exercising their choice about which streaming service they intend to use will lead to... I think you are suggesting the burning of books?

or, alternatively, how a songwriter exercising his intellectual property rights... leads to burning books?

I mean I'm all for an entertaining slippery slope and all but you've lost me here.

now, there are some great examples from the Southern US of folks actually trying to remove books from libraries because they dislike their content, which clearly is small fries compared to a few folks boycotting a corporation?
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Obviously we aren't talking about actual books, just used that as a metaphor to troll a little and it's based on the fact that those people want to literally ban books. And if they get their way eventually they will start burning books.

I have never said anything about people cancelling Spotify.

Some people want Spotify to censor and cancel Joe Rogan's podcast because of one man's opinion. And you don't care because he's on the right side. I'm saying that this is a slippery slope and it's the same for those cretins in the South. If you let things slip it will continue to get worse and eventually you won't be on the right team. Being against censorship doesn't mean you get to pick and choose, as long as you agree with it. That's the whole point. There are also very clear reasons why we say "innocent until proven guilty" and not the other way around.

Also on a smaller scale, if this continues it will destroy streaming services. What if a pro-vaccine podcast gets 11 million views and Eric Clapton says it's me or them. Eventually they will give in. Then Marvel will say you must remove Greedo shooting first from Star Wars or we pull our movies, and of course that's okay because I agree with that one.
 
I think there were better ways for Neil to make his point, but in the end who cares?

as much as I dislike Rogan (way before covid) he certainly doesn’t need Spotify to get listeners; it’s actually the complete opposite, so who this is hurting is fans of Neil Young who have Spotify

and who is this helping? exactly nobody
 
CH1 said:
I think there were better ways for Neil to make his point, but in the end who cares?

as much as I dislike Rogan (way before covid) he certainly doesn’t need Spotify to get listeners; it’s actually the complete opposite, so who this is hurting is fans of Neil Young who have Spotify

and who is this helping? exactly nobody
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it is helping neil young fans realize rogan is shit - and his fans are probably in that vulnerable category
plus it is drawing a lot of attention to the misinformation to non fans

i cannot think of a better way for neil to make his point
 
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