PDS 9.17 What Secret Rogan Spotify Revolt Leaks Reveal, Charli D'Amelio, & COVID Vaccine Confusion
The Philip DeFranco Show
philip defranco
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Sup ya beautiful bastards. Hope you have it a fantastic Thursday. Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco Show. Buckle up. Hit that like button and let's just jump into it. |
| 0:08.6 | And the first thing that we're gonna talk about today is actually upset at Spotify and Joe Rogan because several episodes of his podcast did not immediately appear on the platform. |
| 0:24.3 | This, even though Rogan said that his entire library would be available to stream, but you had people noting that a lot of the episodes missing featured controversial figures. |
| 0:31.1 | People like Alex Jones, Chris DeLea, Milo Yanopoulos, Gavin McKinnis. Though, as we noted, there were also a couple of episodes missing from less controversial figures. |
| 0:38.5 | But still, in general, you had a number of people accusing Spotify of censoring controversial voices. |
| 0:42.5 | But ultimately, where we saw that story end then was with a voice that you wouldn't expect to downplay things. |
| 0:47.7 | With Alex Jones coming out and kind of explaining the situation by saying that Spotify was having to migrate over 1,500 plus files, saying that he talked to Rogan, there was no censorship, |
| 0:55.2 | and that the episodes would appear at a later date. |
| 0:57.0 | And I mention all of that because the news |
| 0:58.5 | that we're talking about today |
| 0:59.5 | is really the opposite of that conversation now taking place. |
| 1:02.8 | But the number of people now asking why Spotify |
| 1:04.5 | is leaving up other controversial episodes |
| 1:06.7 | of the Joe Rogan experience. |
| 1:08.0 | And actually regarding all of that, |
| 1:09.0 | yesterday you had Spotify CEO, Daniel Eck, |
| 1:11.2 | reportedly meeting with employees |
| 1:12.6 | at an all hands company meeting. |
| 1:13.9 | And according to VICE's motherboard, |
| 1:15.1 | during that meeting, several employees asked Eck |
| 1:17.4 | why the platform was leaving up episodes |
| 1:19.1 | where they say Rogan Express transphobic viewpoints. |
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