Mon. 01/31 – Spotify “Clarifies” The Joe Rogan Situation

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🗓️ 31 January 2022

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Summing up the whole Joe Rogan brouhaha from over the weekend. Meta joins a crypto legal alliance and takes a page out of Alphabets book by planning to break out reporting of its metaverse business. And the dotcom bubble called and wants its headlines back: wash trading might be rampant on NFT marketplaces, and a look at the six startups trying to succeed, where Kozmo.com failed. Sponsors: Devry.edu/future Links: Spotify finally responds to Joe Rogan controversy with a plan to label podcasts that discuss COVID-19 (The Verge) Joe Rogan defends podcast and apologizes to Spotify for backlash (The Verge) Spotify’s big Rogan mistake (Protocol) Facebook parent Meta joins crypto group promoting open patents (The Block) Facebook's metaverse efforts are already generating close to $3 billion a year in revenue, analysts estimate. (Insider) LooksRare Has Reportedly Generated $8B in Ethereum NFT Wash Trading (Decrypt) Losses Mount for Startups Racing to Deliver Groceries Fast and Cheap (WSJ) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Monday, January 31st, 2022. I'm Brian McCullough
0:08.9	today. Summing up the whole Joe Rogan Bruhaha from over the weekend.
0:14.0	Meta joins a crypto legal alliance and takes a page out of
0:17.8	Alphabet's book by planning to break out reporting of its
0:20.6	Metiverse business and the dot-com bubble called and once its headlines back. of its
0:24.2	headlines back.
0:25.2	Wash trading might be rampant on
0:27.2	NFT marketplaces and a look at the six startups trying to succeed
0:30.7	where Cosmo.com failed. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.
0:37.0	Well, over the weekend it was all Joe Rogan all the time. In response to growing criticism, Spotify published its
0:45.1	longstanding platform rules and says it is working to add a content advisory to
0:50.2	podcast episodes that discuss COVID-19, quoting the
0:54.3	verge. Spotify says anyone who breaks the rules may have the content in
0:58.8	question removed with repeat offenders potentially having their accounts suspended or banned.
1:04.4	The Verge obtained this policy ahead of the platform's public release
1:08.3	and an internal memo revealed that Joe Rogan's podcast didn't quote
1:11.8	meet the threshold for removal end quote
1:14.5	according to the policy Spotify prohibits content that asserts quote AIDS
1:18.8	COVID-19 cancer or other serious life-threatening diseases are a hoax or not real."
1:25.1	The platform also bans content that encourages people, quote, to purposely get infected with
1:29.8	COVID-19 in order to build immunity, end quote, and doesn't allow content that suggests
1:34.0	vaccines quote are designed to cause death and quote however compared to the
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