Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Monday, February 7th, 2022. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, Roggate rolls on. Why a controversy in the Ethereum name service community might be even more

interesting because of what it might teach us about the viability of Dows.

Twitter is oddly testing ways to make it easier for folks to DM you and rumors of a new entry-level

Macbook Pro.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. So the Joe Rogan controversy or Rogan Gate, I guess if you will, rolled on through the weekend.

Joe Rogan apologized for his past use of the N-word on the Joe Rogan experience after a

compilation video of him using the slur on the show went viral. 70 Joe Rogan

experience episodes then disappeared from Spotify.

A source told Lucas Shaw at Bloomberg that Spotify took down the episodes at Rogan's request.

All the removed episodes were recorded before Rogan signed his... all the of Spotify said that, quote, silencing Rogin

is not the answer and committed $100 million

to licensing, developing, and marketing content

for marginalized groups, quoting the Hollywood reporter.

In a letter sent to staff obtained by the Hollywood reporter. In a letter sent to staff obtained by the Hollywood reporter,

Ek acknowledged that Rogan's comments were, quote,

incredibly hurtful, quote, and confirmed that Rogan decided to remove

multiple past episodes from Spotify but said he did not believe in removing the podcast from Spotify.

I want to make one point very clear. I do not believe that silencing Joe is the answer, Ek wrote.

We should have clear lines around content and take action when they are crossed,

but canceling voices is a slippery slope, end quote.

On Friday, 71 episodes of the Joe Rogan experience were removed from Spotify according to the website J-R-E missing, which tracks when the podcast episodes are missing from the streaming platform.

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