{"id":61692,"date":"2022-01-30T09:11:41","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T14:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61692"},"modified":"2022-01-30T09:11:41","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T14:11:41","slug":"the-pressure-campaign-on-spotify-to-remove-joe-rogan-reveals-the-religion-of-liberals-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61692","title":{"rendered":"The Pressure Campaign on Spotify to Remove Joe Rogan Reveals the Religion of Liberals: Censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Pressure Campaign on Spotify to Remove Joe Rogan Reveals the Religion of Liberals: Censorship<\/a><\/h3>\n

All factions, at certain points, succumb to the impulse to censor. But for the Democratic Party’s liberal adherents, silencing their adversaries has become their primary project.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Joe Rogan interviews Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Aug. 6, 2019, roughly six months before he endorsed the Vermont independent for president.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

American liberals are obsessed<\/strong>\u00a0with finding ways to silence and censor their adversaries. Every week, if not every day, they have new targets they want de-platformed, banned, silenced, and otherwise prevented from speaking or being heard (by “liberals,\u201d I mean the term of self-description used by the\u00a0dominant wing of the Democratic Party<\/a>).<\/p>\n

For years, their preferred censorship tactic was to expand and distort the concept of “hate speech\u201d to mean “views that make us uncomfortable,\u201d and then demand that such \u201chateful\u201d views be prohibited on that basis. For that reason, it is now common to hear Democrats assert,\u00a0falsely<\/a>, that the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech does not protect \u201chate speech.” Their political culture has long inculcated them to believe that they can comfortably silence whatever views they arbitrarily place into this category without being guilty of censorship.<\/p>\n

Constitutional illiteracy to the side, the \u201chate speech\u201d framework for justifying censorship is now insufficient because liberals are eager to silence a much broader range of voices than those they can credibly accuse of being hateful. That is why the newest, and now most popular, censorship framework is to claim that their targets are guilty of spreading \u201cmisinformation\u201d or \u201cdisinformation.\u201d These terms, by design, have no clear or concise meaning. Like the term \u201cterrorism,\u201d it is their elasticity that makes them so useful.<\/p>\n

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The Pressure Campaign on Spotify to Remove Joe Rogan Reveals the Religion of Liberals: Censorship All factions, at certain points, succumb to the impulse to censor. But for the Democratic Party’s liberal adherents, silencing their adversaries has become their primary project. Joe Rogan interviews Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Aug. 6, 2019, roughly six months […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[120,32585,5437,27413,2875,512],"class_list":["post-61692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-censorship","tag-de-platforming","tag-glenn-greenwald","tag-joe-rogan","tag-liberals","tag-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61693,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61692\/revisions\/61693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}