Crosby, Stills &. Nash give up their virtue-signaling Spotify protest of Joe Rogan

"Whaaa whaaa wee ooo, California"

The old singers Crosby, Stills and Nash returned to Spotify ending a five-month protest of podcaster Joe Rogan. The group were in short-term solidarity with ex-band member Neil Young because the falsetto singing Canadian was upset with Rogan for his assessment of COVID-19 that disagreed with Young's, and this upset him so much that he gave the Sweden-based streaming company the ultimatum: "They can have Rogan or Young. Not both." This was written to Spotify's parent company, Warner Records.

They chose Rogan over the Canadian has-been. Money talks, falsetto squawks.

So Young's buddies pulled their library of songs off the streaming platform while Rogan continued to rake in the dough faster than an omicron spread. Now the Geritol geriatrics have returned to Spotify and pledged that they will donate their earnings to charities aiding those infected with COVID-19, according to Billboard. Hopefully they won't "pull an Amber Heard" and just pledge without the donating part.

Joe Rogan, who signed a $200 million exclusive licensing agreement with Spotify in May 2020 is one of Spotify’s most listened-to podcasts, with an estimated audience of about 11 million frequent listeners.

Soon after Young had his hissy-fit and removed his falsetto singing off Spotify, his former bandmates David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash released a statement in February which read: “We support Neil and we agree with him that there is dangerous disinformation being aired on Spotify’s Joe Rogan podcast.”

“While we always value alternate points of view, knowingly spreading disinformation during this global pandemic has deadly consequences,” the band’s statement read at a time when people knew as much about COVID-19 as barbers knew about performing heart surgery in 1850.

“Until real action is taken to show that a concern for humanity must be balanced with commerce, we don’t want our music — or the music we made together — to be on the same platform,” they virtue signaled, as a ploy to somehow regain a modicum of relevance.

"Hello cowgirl in the sand"

Spotify agreed to take down Young’s falsetto singing, saying in a statement: “We want all the world’s music and audio content to be available to Spotify users. With that comes great responsibility in balancing both safety for listeners and freedom for creators.”

Like the everything bagel, we now live in a world of everything politics.

The company added: “We have detailed content policies in place and we’ve removed over 20,000 podcast episodes related to COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic. We regret Neil’s decision to remove his music from Spotify, but hope to welcome him back soon.”In late January, Neil Young ordered his record company, Falsetto Rocks, to pull his library off of Spotify, to which people of good taste thanked him, or possibly her--you can't tell by the voice.

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Other old singers including Joni Mitchell and Doofling Danson also pulled their music from Spotify. Danson was best known for "I'll Just Be Your Clown If There's No One Around, I'll Just Be Your Fool If It Makes Me Look Cool."

So now that the boys in the band are returning to Spotify, we all look forward to hearing their next hit, "Hang Up The Telephone And Turn On The Record Player, Momma."

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Dems got it backwards on democracy

The survival of our democracy depends on the adherence to the Bill of Rights. Democracy never depends on banning any right guaranteed by the finest document ever put to paper.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) is calling for more tech companies to ban more sites that he and his party disagrees with, like Facebook, YouTube, Apple, Pinterest, and Spotify have done to Infowars. Murphy says the survival of American democracy depends on it.

Murphy has it a** backwards: the survival of our democracy depends on our ability to express ourselves and defend ourselves against the tyranny of government, just like the tyranny of censoring free speech erodes democracy.

If it's Alex Jones today, who will it be tomorrow? Ben Shapiro?Sean Hannity? Robert Spencer? Pamela Geller?

Even the speech of Milo Yiannopoulos, which is as detestable as Alex Jones', should not be banned because the more these idiots talk, the more normal people can see their lies.

But Chris Murphy and his ilk are more dangerous than both Jones and Yiannopoulos.

"Infowars is the tip of a giant iceberg of hate and lies that uses sites like Facebook and YouTube to tear our nation apart," Murphy said. "These companies must do more than take down one website. The survival of our democracy depends on it," he tweeted Monday.

Murphy never explains just who determines what are the lies. He also doesn't understand that free speech is not the speech we want to hear, but the speech we don't want to hear. It's a person's right to say whatever he wants to say and our right to not listen, to walk away, to disagree and use more speech to debate.

Speech that calls for violence or puts lives at risk is already illegal.

And no, Alex, we are not 'all Alex Jones'. Just because someone defends your First Amendment right to free speech, doesn't mean they like you or believe a word you say. You are a loathsome individual who deserves not to be taken seriously, but that's the only restriction that should be placed on your words.

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Why lunatics like Alex Jones should not be banned

How is it that Apple, YouTube and Facebook banned Infowars on the same day? Is it possible the tech giants are band together to ban people they don't agree with?

Look, Alex Jones, who heads Infowars, is a conspiracy theory moron and a disgusting human being. I dislike the way he comes across; I dislike the garbage he spouts, but I like the First Amendment a lot more than I dislike Jones.

Facebook unpublished four of Jones' pages for "repeated violations of community standards," the company said Monday, without defining with clarity what the hell they were talking about.

Then YouTube terminated his account after he continued appearing in videos despite a 90-day ban from the company. Spotify also removed all of one of his podcasts for "hate content". They didn't explain what hate content is, but apparently it's anything the left disagrees with and wants banned.

Sarah Jeong is a racist just hired by the New York Times for its editorial staff. She has said horrible, anti-white, anti-cop, and anti-white woman statements on Twitter and was never banned for her hateful rhetoric.

But when Candace Owens, a conservative black woman, substituted the word 'white' with 'black' using Jeong's own tweets, Owens was banned from the website until conservatives voiced strong complaints and she was reinstated.

To rectify the situation, Twitter claimed they made a mistake by banning Owens. That was as feeble an excuse as Jeong's was when she claimed she received racist remarks on Twitter and countered those remarks with her own racist remarks.

If you believe that, you've got to be a liberal.

Have you noticed that leftist mistakes only go in one direction? Has anyone seen The New York Times or CNN make a "mistake" in favor of President Trump?

Removing speech one doesn't like or agree with is dangerous to the freedoms of this country. If you do it with Jones, you will not stop if you know you've gotten away with it. The First Amendment wasn't made to protect speech we like--it was made to protect speech we don't like. And the best way to deal with speech we don't like is with more speech, obviously.

But like a certain religion that will go unnamed, leftism cannot tolerate good debate because it's a weak ideology.

Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Spotify, Apple or any tech giant, should not be the arbiters of what is considered acceptable speech.

As mentioned, Jones is a disgusting person who has even gone so far as to claim the shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School was a hoax and the children were all actors, to give merely one example of his conspiracy theory claims, but he should be viewed as the idiot he is and be allowed to show how big an idiot on Inforwars, as long as nobody is threatened with violence or that violence is called for by Jones.

The left is losing its collective mind and our rights are about to take a serious hit.

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