Joni Mitchell removing music from Spotify in solidarity with Neil Young

I agree Young and Mitchell are legends, but not Nils Lofgren. I support all three for doing what they believe is right and I believe they are sincere. Plus they are truly exercising free speech.

However, I suspect Young's and Mitchell's business managers had something to do with this (Lofgren is probably a follower.)

As great (and rich) as Young and Mitchell are they are no longer relevant, which translates to reduced sales. Making this stand raises awareness of them to generations who are not aware or vaguely aware of them, which translates to news sales. Their music is still available on other streaming services.

I suspect their business managers pushed this move. And that is not anything wrong with that either.

HOW do you know it’s “misinformation”? Because Fauci tells you?🤣 I only hope you’re wearing a mask while typing in your bomb shelter! You don’t want to catch “Covid”…..

The problem inherent in policing “Covid misinformation” is the complete absence of public trust in the reliability of what the authorities have offered as the “true information.” You don’t have to be a medical expert to see that the FDA, CDC, the NIH, as well as the White House have all been untruthful, or wrong, or inconsistent, about a spectacular range of COVID issues in the last two years. Today, you can go on YouTube and watch a town hall by Joe Biden from July 21 of last year in which the president pronounced, “You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.” This is plainly the definition of “Covid misinformation.”

This puts the issue of the reliability of authorities front and center, which is the main problem with pandemic messaging by Neil Young and Joni Mitchell. Instead of seeing the root causes of this atmosphere of rapidly declining public trust, the cultural arbiters of speech keep pushing for even more sweeping campaigns of control that only drives more people to guys like Rogan who at least give the counter points to the overwhelming government b.s.

These media sources calling for Rogan to be silenced have spread their share of misinformation. Rogan did try Ivermectin, but he had a doctors prescription and every time I've heard him bring up the subject he says he doesn't know whether it helped or not. At one time we were told he said he cured Covid with horse dewormer. The Rogan is constantly spreading disinformation stories will still imply he said he cured it with Ivermectin. Or that the vaccine doesn't work.

They also have been ignoring information that critics of the Covid response here have been bringing up. It's rarely mentioned that other countries are taking different approaches like emphasizing early treatment a lot more than we do here. They'll mention that people who are older or already sick are at higher risk, but I rarely see them really get into the actual numbers. Rogan is correct when he says that young healthy people are at about as much risk to Covid as they are to the flu, especially the Omicron variant which has become the dominant one. We rarely hear about the fact that other countries are taking different approaches.

If sources of misinformation need to be shutdown, we should include them. I saw a poll recently that claimed that people on the left tend to overestimate by a wide margin the risk of being hospitalized from Covid. Makes sense. Most of them probably get their news from the same people who want Rogan shut down.

I’m not generally into folk music but I love Joni Mitchell.