News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Joe Rogan's $100,000 vaccine debate offer to RFK Jr. and Peter Hotez, Howard from Take Take getting cancelled and Laurence Fox burning a Pride flag.
In the latest humiliation for the Prince and Princess of Woke, Spotify has pulled the plug on Meghan and Harry's Archetypes podcast. No wonder, says Alexander Larman, it was dull, repetitive and ridiculously short.
Spotify has suffered $230 million in losses and has laid off 600 employees in one month. Paying Meghan and Harry $18 million for a rubbish podcast probably didn't help. Another classic example of ‘Get woke, go broke’?
Woke artists and musicians accused Joe Rogan of spreading COVID-19 misinformation and demanded he be kicked off Spotify. The result? He gained two million new subscribers.
Despite the very limited extent of the wrinklies' boycott of Spotify over Joe Rogan's vaccine 'misinformation', Rogan has apologised for "pissing off" Spotify – after Spotify imposed new warnings on pandemic content.
Spotify has announced will add trigger warnings to podcast episodes that discuss COVID-19, directing people to the platform's 'COVID-19 Guide', which includes podcasts by BBC News, the Guardian and Nature.
Just when you thought Neil Young's boycott of Spotify over Joe Rogan was fizzling out, Prince Harry and Meghan step in to keep it fizzling a little longer, "expressing concern" about "misinformation" on the platform.
Neil Young has picked a strange hill to die on in his boycott of Spotify over Joe Rogan daring to interview two medical experts who have expressed concerns about the coronavirus vaccines.
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