I feel like this is not something the White House should be doing. No matter how noble this might seem in the present, I still think it is inappropriate and I hope this doesn't become a precedent.
White House: "Nice gig you got there. It would be a shame if you didn't stay on our message instead of putting out your own message. Someone might have to come along and shut you down. That would be such a shame."
Clickbait article. Psaki does not specifically target Spotify to take further action against Joe Rogan in the press conference. She's speaks of tech companies and news organizations generally as a whole to call out misinformation. It's a pretty generic statement that has been sensationalized to bolster a weak news article.<p><a href="https://youtu.be/HZg43LxJD0Q?t=4324" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/HZg43LxJD0Q?t=4324</a>
Very funny and sad to me how modern politics has turned the term "liberal" into a political group that seems to support the exact opposite of liberalism - censor any opinion we don't like, discriminate based on race, destroy anything "problematic", anything we disagree with is misinformation, yada yada.
Opinions on this aside (which are subjective), we should remember that the "this is a bad precedent to set" argument is ignoring the (objective) fact that this precedent has already been set.<p>The US Government took many actions even stronger than this to stop speech against the Vietnam War (resulting in the Free Speech movement).<p>This problem continues in how folks talk about how vaccine mandates setting a bad precedent, unaware of how the US Government mandates (by force) polio vaccinations.