![]() ![]() The episode, with guest Abigail Shrier, was never removed, though Spotify employees reportedly threatened to walk out while demanding further show removals and direct editorial oversight over Rogan’s future episodes. “I’m not even remotely that.”Įarlier, Rogan addressed a wave of protests against him by activist Spotify employees, particularly over an episode questioning whether pre-teen and teenage girls should be permitted to have gender-transitioning medications or operations. “That’s one of the things that happened with Spotify with some of their staff, where they thought I was transphobic, or thought I was a bad person - I saw one of their staff say that I was a ‘shock jock’,” Rogan relayed. They’re not - they’re not.” Separately, Rogan also confirmed that activist Spotify employees had accused him of transphobia and protested his arrival on the platform. “A lot of people are like, ‘they’re telling Joe Rogan what he can and can’t do’. So that answers that question, though Rogan insisted that there won’t be further corporate oversight moving forward. But other than that, in terms of what I do in the future, the big test was having Alex Jones on.” “There were a few episodes they didn’t want on their platform, and I was like ‘okay, I don’t care’. They haven’t given me a hard time at all,” Rogan stated, before spilling the beans on the censorship bit. Which raised the question of whether Spotify is actively censoring or controlling Rogan’s editorial freedom. “Yeah, that’s the criticism of me being on Spotify,” Rogan quipped while letting out a laugh. “Anytime anything gets big enough, you’re gonna get s-t like that,” Anwar responded. I don’t know if that’s the place anymore, because I feel like there’s too much corporate involvement, there’s too much influence on content.” “It made me think like, man, I don’t know if that’s the place. “When I saw that Hasan’s show was pulled because of the criticism of Saudi Arabia, I was like, ‘what? Netflix?’ Ironically, the topic of Spotify came up in the context of corporate censorship, specifically Netflix’s censorship of an episode of Hasan Minhaj’s Patriot Act following pressure from the Saudi Arabian government. ![]()
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