Joe Rogan and Spotify aren’t in trouble for spreading false information. They’re in trouble for embarrassing the media and government officials who themselves pushed false information.
The Left has a word for misinformation that turns out to be true. They call it, “misinformation.” Over and over again, the tech giants, cheered on by power-drunk government officials, have censored and deplatformed people who have contradicted the official narrative regarding COVID and heavy-handed public health measures that restrict freedom with dubious health benefits.
Tellingly, the demands to censor Joe Rogan rarely identify the supposed “misinformation” he peddled. Even more tellingly, the censors totally fail to acknowledge that Rogan-promoted “conspiracy theories” have a better track record than many of the articles of faith his critics promoted.
Let’s start at the beginning. In March 2020, at the start of the pandemic, a “conspiracy theory” emerged suggesting that the dread COVID-19 virus actually escaped from the Wuhan virology lab that studied coronaviruses. Vox warned,
With more and more people searching online for information about the coronavirus outbreak, they can easily encounter a barrage of misleading and potentially dangerous information. And the WHO, which has also released its own ‘myth-busting’ resources, is warning that misinformation about the novel coronavirus has caused harmful stigmatization and discrimination. In the US, for instance, there is a growing number of reports about misinformation fueling racism against Asian Americans.
Facebook and other social media then censored posts that suggested the virus originated in the Wuhan lab.
As Rogan recently noted, Newsweek and several other outlets later reported, “the pileup of circumstantial evidence pointing to the Wuhan lab kept growing—until it became too substantial to ignore,” adding,
Thanks to DRASTIC, we now know that the Wuhan Institute of Virology had an extensive collection of coronaviruses gathered over many years of foraging in the bat caves, and that many of them—including the closest known relative to the pandemic virus, SARS-CoV-2—came from a mineshaft where three men died from a suspected SARS-like disease in 2012. We know that the WIV was actively working with these viruses, using inadequate safety protocols, in ways that could have triggered the pandemic, and that the lab and Chinese authorities have gone to great lengths to conceal these activities. We know that the first cases appeared weeks before the outbreak at the Huanan wet market that was once thought to be ground zero.
Then there were the cruel shutdowns that wrecked so many lives, destroyed businesses, and deprived families of so many irreplaceable experiences. In May 2020, Facebook totally censored a group on its platform called, “Michiganders Against Excessive Quarantine.” It further banned users from organizing, “events that defy government’s guidance on social distancing,” restrictions it later did not apply to the Black Lives Matter-aligned gatherings that soon followed. The double-standard spoke volumes.
Yet, it turned out that the oppressive restrictions provided little or no benefit to public health. The Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics conducted a sweeping review of public health data to determine whether countries achieved better public health outcomes by implementing strict public quarantine rules.
Joe,
Do a Google or Bing search for “Vaccines and Boosters causing AIDS” It’s an interesting read. To add another level to that, it has been mentioned that the AIDS boosters are the exact reason Biden is passing out crackpipes. They are going to blame the drug use and shared needles as a scapegoat.
Chalk it up!