'The Joe Rogan Experience' Returns to Apple Podcasts After 3-Year Hiatus

[MacFarmer]

oh, so redneck is back? can't he just go to some OF site and lock himself up?

 

[FriendlyMackle]

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The clown emoji doesn’t even begin to describe people like this…we need a horror-vampire-clown-IT-like entity emoji. Sure, the clownishness—coupled with real danger from real-world effects of disinformation.

 

[xdhd350]

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I'm siding with J.A.K. here, I had to add back in the quote from the prior post, it should be first in the above.

I'm sorry but give me a break. Consider Alex Jones who said Sandy Hook never happened and it was all a hoax. He much like Joe Rogan said a lot of garbage and some bad stuff happened when his followers started going after the families who were actual victims. He got called out for it and sued into oblivion. So if you want to talk about dangerous, how about that? People had to deal with death threats because someone made up lies about them, and had the platform to spread their lies to a broad audience.

It was the same with Pizzagate.

And the "stolen election" where poll workers were threatened for simply doing their jobs, and quit for safety concerns where no proof of fraud was ever found.

That’s why it’s up to the recipient of such information to do critical thinking (which seems to be a lost art these days) and come to the conclusion as you did, that what Jones was saying was absolute nonsense. And it looks like the legal system took its course and he has to pay the price for that. I support the freedom to say stupid things, half-truths, etc. but one must be ready to face the blowback from such acts, just not from the government. Very dangerous downward slope if we allow government to decide what is, and is not, misinformation.

As Denzel Washington once said to a reporter, “If you don‘t watch the news, you are uninformed. If you do watch the news, you’re misinformed.”

 

[xdhd350]

I've had people threaten to kill me on Breitbart. The big difference is this isn't some troll's threats when you are safely behind a handle, it's people acting out in real life based on some other person's lies which are perceived as real.

Like that hasn’t been happening for thousands of years. Long before the internet existed. 1938 Germany comes to mind. Or, the invasion of Iraq based on claims of them possessing WMD’s.

 

[Surf Monkey]

If you're actively threatening harm against someone, that's a different story. (Even then some threats are non-credible) But the state controlling speech is also dangerous. Look, Alex Jones is a nut, but I also think he has a right to be a nut.

The state didn’t silence Jones.

 

[Surf Monkey]

That’s why it’s up to the recipient of such information to do critical thinking (which seems to be a lost art these days) and come to the conclusion as you did, that what Jones was saying was absolute nonsense. And it looks like the legal system took its course and he has to pay the price for that. I support the freedom to say stupid things, half-truths, etc. but one must be ready to face the blowback from such acts, just not from the government. Very dangerous downward slope if we allow government to decide what is, and is not, misinformation.

As Denzel Washington once said to a reporter, “If you don‘t watch the news, you are uninformed. If you do watch the news, you’re misinformed.”

People in America are not taught how to think critically or how to consume media thoughtfully. Guys like Alex Jones know that and exploit it for money.