{"id":1288034,"date":"2022-02-10T05:30:48","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T10:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1288034"},"modified":"2022-02-10T10:37:42","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T15:37:42","slug":"the-attack-on-joe-rogan-is-an-attack-on-dissent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-attack-on-joe-rogan-is-an-attack-on-dissent\/","title":{"rendered":"The Attack On Joe Rogan Is An Attack On Dissent"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-attack-on-joe-rogan-is-an-attack-on-dissent%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1288034&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Readers-Pass-Shapiro-The-Attack-on-Joe-Rogan-Is-an-Attack-on-Dissent-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Joe Rogan must be stopped.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This is the consensus from all of the wisest and most compassionate voices in our society. According to the White House, Spotify should not merely lead off Rogan\u2019s covid-centric episodes with a content warning; according to press secretary Jen Psaki, \u201cour view is that it is a positive step, but that there is more that can be done.\u201d According to CNN\u2019s Brian Stelter, host of the ironically-named <\/span><i><span>Reliable Sources<\/span><\/i><span>, \u201cHe is now apologizing. And we\u2019re going to find out if that\u2019s enough for Spotify, the company that has an exclusive distribution deal with him.\u201d Has-been rocker Neil Young agrees; he, along with some other washed up old hippie musicians, has taken his music off of Spotify to protest Rogan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>What was Rogan\u2019s great sin? To hear the media tell it, his great sin was covid \u201cmisinformation.\u201d Now, this is a rather vague charge, given the fact that our public health authorities have informed us over the course of the past two years that lockdowns were effective, cloth masks worked, masking of children was necessary, vaccines prevented transmission, naturally immunity was inferior to vaccine immunity, and that the virus could not have originated with a Chinese lab leak \u2013 all pieces of misinformation later reversed. Nonetheless, Rogan vowed to become more informed and to have on more diverse guests with regard to covid and vaccines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When Spotify didn\u2019t deplatform Rogan over <\/span><i><span>that <\/span><\/i><span>charge, the rationale for his demanded deplatforming morphed: now Rogan was a racist for saying the n-word while quoting rap lyrics years ago. After a Left-wing activist group promoted a compendium video of Rogan using such language, Rogan apologized again. But apologies aren\u2019t the point. No one actually thinks Rogan is a racist. For the radical Left, you either become a tool in their arsenal or you become an object lesson. And Rogan has now become an object lesson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He has become an object lesson for two main reasons. First, Rogan has steadfastly refused to toe the party line with regard to Joe Biden; ire broke out against Rogan last year for the crime of noting that Biden appeared \u201cmentally compromised\u201d in the middle of an election that the media had declared a turning point in the future of democracy. Second, Rogan has hosted guests who do not simply repeat the nostrums of the Left on a wide variety of issues. That\u2019s why the Left has demanded that Spotify remove old episode of his show entirely \u2013 alternative voices must not be heard, and Rogan has the unfortunate habit of talking to such voices for hours at a time and letting them say their piece.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>There are several takeaways from the Rogan dust-up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>First, corporate overlords are absolutely gutless. CEO Daniel Ek believed that picking up the exclusive license to Rogan\u2019s show would increase listenership and advertising dollars; he was clearly blindsided by the blowback, to the extent that he issued a mewling letter to the company\u2019s woke interns begging their forgiveness for their hurt feelings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Second, the media are not interested in freedom of speech as a principle. They\u2019re interested in freedom of speech for themselves and no one else. It\u2019s been fascinating to watch the evolution of our treasured Journalismers\u2122 from guardians of the First Amendment to attack dogs on behalf of Big Tech censorship of their perceived enemies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Third, apologizing to insincere radical Left alligators is always a mistake. Their goal is not a conversation. Their goal is destruction. If they find you useful, they may allow you to become Reek to their House Bolton; if they don\u2019t, you become Ned Stark to their Joffrey.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Joe Rogan will survive all of this. Perhaps Spotify ends up paying him a bag of cash to leave, and he takes his audience and goes elsewhere, tanking Spotify\u2019s stock price on his way out the door. That would be precisely what Spotify deserves for their cowardice. But no matter what happens, the lesson will be learned by those who don\u2019t have Rogan\u2019s audience: shut up, or face the whirlwind. And most will shut up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Rogan must be stopped.This is the consensus from all of the wisest and most compassionate voices in our society. 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