Spotify CEO admits Joe Rogan is \u201coffensive\u201d but won\u2019t drop JRE Podcast Spotify\/Joe RoganSpotify CEO Daniel Ek has admitted that there is some \u201cvery offensive\u201d material in Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast that he doesn\u2019t agree with, but the show doesn\u2019t appear to be going anywhere soon. The Joe Rogan Experience Podcast has been in production since the end of 2009, and it has grown to be arguably the biggest podcast in the world. As a result of that, the UFC commentator and his team signed a $100 million deal to sell the podcast\u2019s exclusive rights to Spotify. Though, the move hasn\u2019t been all plain sailing. While Spotify has stated that they wouldn\u2019t interfere with or censor any shows, fans have complained about a number of backlogged episodes not appearing on the streaming service. With Rogan coming under fire in recent months for some controversial takes on the global health pandemic, so too has Spotify. The streaming service has been under pressure from many to do something about Rogan\u2019s show \u2013 with some complaints suggesting they should not only censor it, but rid themselves of the show altogether. That, though, doesn\u2019t seem to be the answer. According to The Verge, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek admitted to some employees that he does take issue with part of the shows, but change doesn\u2019t appear to be forthcoming. \u201cThere are many things that Joe Rogan says that I strongly disagree with and find very offensive,\u201d the Swede said during an employee town hall. However, if Spotify wants to achieve its \u201cbold ambitions,\u201d Ek noted that \u201cit will mean having content on Spotify that many of us may not be proud to be associated with.\u201d According to Ek, this doesn\u2019t mean that \u201canything goes,\u201d but \u201cthere will be opinions, ideas, and beliefs that we disagree with strongly and even makes us angry or sad.\u201d The platform has already made one change to things, as they\u2019ll now be putting disclaimers on some Rogan shows. However, it remains to be seen if there will be bigger changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Spotify CEO admits Joe Rogan is \u201coffensive\u201d but won\u2019t drop JRE Podcast Spotify\/Joe RoganSpotify CEO Daniel Ek has admitted that there is some \u201cvery offensive\u201d material in Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast that he doesn\u2019t agree with, but the show doesn\u2019t appear to be going anywhere soon. The Joe Rogan Experience Podcast has been in production since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}