First, Neil Young.
Now, Joni Mitchell.
Which musician is next to ask @Spotify to ire a COVID misinformation-spewing $100 billion podcaster—or pull their songs?
Said Joni: “Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives." nytimes.com/2022/01/28/art…
On Spotify, Joni Mitchell is listed as having 3.7 million monthly listeners, with two of her songs — “Big Yellow Taxi” and “A Case of You” — getting over 100 million streams.
Neil and Joni, singing "Helpless" with The Band in "The Last Waltz" #SpotifyThis
Note: Rogan is well-paid, but not THAT well paid: Meant $100m, not $100b.
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Spotify lost $4 billion in market value last week, as it chose to keep streaming a COVID misinfo-spewing podcaster over musicians like Neil Young (and now Joni Mitchell), who wanted to protect customers from the life-threatening virus datebook.sfchronicle.com/music/spotify-…
270 experts wrote Spotify saying Rogan's COVID misinfo "has extraordinarily dangerous ramifications." Rogan's average listener is 24 yo & unvaccinated 12-34 yo's "are 12 times more likely to be hospitalized w/ COVID than those who are fully vaccinated." jonimitchell.com/library/view.c…
"Private companies have the right to choose what they profit from, just as I can choose not to have my music support a platform that disseminates harmful information," said Young, adding: "I am happy and proud to stand in solidarity with the front line health care worker."
Authoritarian China to Olympic athletes: Don't speak out about politics while you're here, or you may face punishment (i.e., don't mention how we wrecked Hong Kong's democracy or are conducting an ongoing genocide in Xinjiang). washingtonpost.com/sports/olympic…
Meanwhile, the health-tracking smartphone app that Olympics attendees must download has security flaws that expose personal data. The app’s code has a list of political keywords & lets users report “politically sensitive" content, a cybersecurity research group says.
Related, how Hitler conducted the 1936 Olympics. "At the Winter Olympics in the Bavarian resort town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Hitler reluctantly agreed to remove antisemitic signs under pressure from the president of the International Olympic Committee." ushmm.org/collections/bi…
For the 1st time since 9/11, every early-warning US anti-terror center—all 80 of them—had info of a terror attack on Washington at 1 pm Jan. 6. 300 US officials attended a call 2 days before the attack on the US Capitol. Why didn’t they stop the violence? washingtonpost.com/politics/inter…
48 hours before the bloody attack of the Capitol, a senior US official “asked the city’s health department to convene a call of D.C.-area hospitals and urged them to prepare for a mass casualty event. Empty your emergency rooms, he said, and stock up your blood banks.”
A Dec. 20 FBI tipster said the violent terrorists believed they had “orders from the President,” used code words such as “pickaxe” to describe guns and posted the times and locations of four spots around the country for caravans to meet the day before the joint session.
The bump happened when the flight attendant was moving through the cabin.
She apologized.
The first-class passenger got up—and punched her in the face. She was hospitalized for broken bones. washingtonpost.com/transportation…
"Hedrick said the union also is looking into an incident that occurred Wednesday in Honolulu. During the incident, a passenger allegedly spit at and slapped a flight attendant while exiting an airplane."
“It’s not just the masks,” Hedrick said. “Our passengers have changed. Their behavior on our flights, the safety of our flight attendants, the safety of our passengers — every day is being threatened here.”