Many listeners were excited to see the Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey being interviewed on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast. However, that excitement quickly turned to frustration when Rogan failed to push Dorsey on the topic of social media censorship and then top YouTube comments started to disappear. Rogan has now responded to the fallout in a lengthy Instagram post, saying that he didn’t want to get too confrontational with Dorsey and blaming machine learning for the comments situation.
In the Instagram post, Rogan says, “I felt like I got out of him whatever I was going to get without being too confrontational.”
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Reddit users are not happy with Rogan’s explanation for failing to push Dorsey and have called him out for having no problem getting confrontational with former guests including the conservative commentators Candace Owens and Steven Crowder.
However, they’re more forgiving of his explanation of the comments disappearing, probably because YouTube has a pattern of censoring its community’s voices.
If you’re not familiar with the top YouTube comments that seem to have been suppressed, they came from the YouTubers Mark Dice and Sargon of Akkad.
Here’s Mark Dice’s comment which supposedly had more likes than the entire video when it was removed from the top spot:
Joe: Why was Alex Jones banned?
Jack: I don’t know.
Bull crap. He was banned for telling off CNN’s Oliver Darcy at the Jack Dorsey hearing for lobbying all the social media companies to get him banned, and so then Twitter banned him for “harassing” a “journalist”
And this is Sargon’s comment which had over 2,000 likes before being buried:
If we have a right to use social media, you have no justification for banning people, Jack.
