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To be fair, the web is not the issue but content distribution.

Joe Rogan is free to put together his own site with anything he feels like posting. If instead Joe Rogan wants to use someone else's site to make available his musings then he still has to deal with the owner of that site.

It's like buying a house vs booking a hotel: you might feel more comfortable in the hotel but even if you're a paying customer you need to abide by the service provider's rules.



The difference is Spotify is paying Joe Rogan $100M for his content. He's not a "guest in a hotel", they entered into a mutually beneficial contract to host his content. Spotify is using this to grow their userbase.


And, he can certainly afford to pay fully as much as is needed to check the accuracy of every word he and his guests emit.


I'm sure that'd be an entertaining show to watch, interrupted every 5 seconds for nitpicking corrections of minutae.


The platform’s owners seem fine with Joe.




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