“When we say, as a society, that bigotry and misinformation are unacceptable, and that people who espouse those ideas don’t deserve access to significant platforms, that’s curation.” “When we are not free to express ourselves, when we can be thrown in jail or even lose our lives for speaking freely, that is censorship,” she wrote. Gay emphasized that she is not for censorship but for curation, and she explained the difference between the two. Something she didn’t mention is that Rogan often features anti-transgender rhetoric. “Sometimes, racism is sprinkled in his conversations, just to keep things interesting,” she noted. Rogan sometimes says he is simply curious, which is “a convenient way of shirking accountability for misleading people about their life-or-death health decisions,” she continued. On The Joe Rogan Experience, the host has made “false claims that Covid vaccines are ‘essentially a gene therapy’” and featured guests who offer “dangerous misinformation about Covid and other topics,” Gay wrote in Thursday’s New York Times. Black queer feminist author Roxane Gay has pulled her podcast, The Roxane Gay Agenda, from Spotify because the platform continues to carry Joe Rogan, whose podcast spreads misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccines.
