In the middle of his podcast, iconic podcast host Joe Rogan delightedly reacted to the news that Elon Musk had bought Twitter, bursting out, “Oh s***, oh s***! Elon Musk just bought Twitter! We got a movie star cut type of a superhero.”
Prior to Rogan being alerted of the news, he was speaking about cancel culture. He began, “My feeling on all this stuff that’s going on about even cancel culture, what people are talking about is cancel culture; it’s people realizing that they have the ability to affect things around them, especially if they act in groups.”
“Now, I’m not saying it’s good, but when people realize that they can organize a campaign to attack a politician or attack a celebrity or attack someone they feel like is deserving of that, and then they spend a lot of time online doing that, I’m not saying it’s good, but it’s fascinating,” he commented. “It’s fascinating because it’s a never before available portal for expressing yourself and I think just like everything else in life there’s this bad aspect of things that happen and then there’s a correction that may at least potentially be good.”
“And I think that way when I think of all this cancel culture s*** and all this criticism and all the chaos, the infighting between the right and the left and the f***ing battle for control of the government, all of that stuff, when I look at all that stuff I say, this is a strange time for the processing of information, the distribution of information, it’s the Wild West and no one knows what the f*** to do,” he continued. “There’s a lot of people who are trying to apply traditional models to how to handle things today and it’s not working.”
“Like here’s the thing, there’s so much culture shifting happening on the internet but nobody controls the internet,” he noted. “That’s what’s so crazy, so for the first time in the history of human beings, regular people, just people people, who got a YouTube channel, who get a f***ing Twitter page, have a massive say, a massive say, in the way people think and feel about things. I think ultimately that’s going to be a good thing but we have rough water ahead. That’s what’s going on.”
Turning to censorship, he stated, “And all the people that are calling for censorship, you’re only calling for censorship for people that don’t agree with you. But there’s going to be people that don’t agree with you and if they get the f***ing reins, then that s*** comes back around at you and that is how dictators form. That’s how they take control of governments. Censorship is f***ing dangerous ’cause it’s a mental form of dictatorship. You’re deciding what people can and can’t do and you’re deciding it based on your own ideology.”
“How do I know if you’ve examined it?” he asked rhetorically. “How do I know if you’re introspective? How do I know if you’ve done the work? How do I know if you’re being honest about yourself, about your failures, your successes, your kindness and your weakness, your strengths, your flaws? How do I know? I don’t f***ing know. But I do know this: if you want to censor people, most likely you haven’t, most likely you haven’t done the work. And this is where we find ourselves with Elon Musk about to buy Twitter.”
Then Rogan was informed that Musk had indeed both Twitter.
“Oh s***, oh s***! Elon Musk just bought Twitter!” he chortled. “We got a movie star cut type of a superhero. It’s like a movie. Like if you had a movie and there was a guy who was like a hero in the movie who happened to be a billionaire who does wild s***. Like makes his own rockets and drills under the city with electric cars and then buys Twitter.”
He quoted from a news article, “Elon Musk agrees to buy Twitter in a $44 billion deal. Agreement to take social network private marks the close of dramatic courtship.”
“Here’s why that’s going to be interesting,” he opined. “First of all, he believes free speech is important, and not just important, vital for a democracy, for a functioning democracy. And I agree with that. And what’s interesting about this is we’re – we found out some things about things about Twitter and one of the things they do is shadowban people. They make it so that your content, whatever you put out, has less impact. It has less engagement. They limit your ability to express yourself. They ban accounts and they ban accounts if the account says something that they don’t agree with.”
“If the account says something that violates what they believe – you can’t deadname someone,” he explained. “Like Bruce Jenner was Bruce Jenner his whole life and then he became Caitlyn Jenner and if you call Caitlyn by that other name, you’re deadnaming her. And they’ll ban you; they’ll ban you for life. So me even saying his name as a name, there’s nothing wrong with that name; it’s how he won the Olympics; that was the name of the guy on the Wheaties box. That was the name. But by me saying that name – people write articles when I do it – like. ‘Oh, he’s deadnaming her.’”
“You’re talking like you’re in a cult, okay” he snapped. “I’m saying a f***ing name and it was a name that someone used for a long time. It’s not meant in any way, shape or form to be disrespectful. That will get you banned for life from Twitter. That’s crazy ideological s***. That’s what that is. It’s cult s***.”
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