Employees threaten strike if Spotify doesn’t censor Joe Rogan!
NEW YORK (PNN) - September 29, 2020 - This is going to get interesting.
I hope Joe Rogan got a good chunk of his $100 million deal with Spotify up front.
The social justice warrior (SJW) employees at Spotify are raising hell.
Despite several meetings trying to come to a resolution, some staffers were reportedly dissatisfied with the way senior management responded to Rogan’s controversial material.
“Spotify employees were demanding direct editorial oversight over the recently-acquired Joe Rogan Experience podcast. That would include the ability to directly edit or remove sections of upcoming interviews, or block the uploading of episodes deemed problematic. The employees also demanded the ability to add trigger warnings, corrections, and references to fact-checked articles on topics discussed by Rogan in the course of his multi-hour discussions,” Digital Music News (DMN) reports.
Spotify management has already met some of the group’s demands, though a refusal to allow further changes is stirring talk of a high-profile walkout or strike.
According to preliminary plans shared with DMN, the strike would principally involve New York-based Spotify employees, and would be accompanied by protests outside Spotify’s Manhattan headquarters. Other aspects would involve media appearances and coordination with other activist organizations.
It never makes sense to give in to SJW demands because the demands will never stop; you keep them at the starting gate and let them yell and scream from there.
Rogan is a high-profile target so they are not going to go away anytime soon.
Spotify may have finally figured out that giving in is not the answer.
It now appears that Spotify is unwilling to directly edit or otherwise alter any existing episodes, with content alteration considered a bright line that shouldn’t be crossed.
Spotify’s management has also refused to remove a more contentious recent episode involving Abigail Shrier. Shrier, a Wall Street Journal writer and author of Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience in July and has drawn the most protest from the activist Spotify employees.
Stay tuned, as they say in the radio world.
