Podcast host, Joe Rogan, absolutely destroyed this magazine mogul who says the government should have the power to regulate what we can see on the internet. Tell me that’s not a scary thought. The same people who are supposed to regulate drug manufacturing and food safety could also have the power to control the internet. Jann Wenner, the 76-year-old magazine magnate who co-founded Rolling Stone and owned Men’s Journal thinks that the same people who poisoned the food should sensor information.
“Do you want the government to regulate the internet?” Rogan directly asks Wenner.
“Absolutely,” Wenner responds.
Rogan, who himself has been the target of censorship attacks, doesn’t immediately say he disagrees. Instead, he first asks Wenner another question—and it was a good one.
“You trust the people who got us into the Iraq War on false pretenses to regulate the internet?” Rogan asked Wenner.
Wenner struggles to answer, and after some cross-talk, he responds with his own question: “Who else is going to regulate it?”
Rogan, unlike Wenner, offers a clear response:
“If they’re gonna be in power and they’re regulating the internet, they’re gonna regulate the internet in a way that suits their best interest. The same way they do with the banking industry, the same way they do with the environment, the same way they do with energy, the same way they do with everything.”
Wenner is still not convinced. He says the internet must be regulated.
“[And] there’s no way to do that except through the government,” Wenner says. “There’s no way that you can do that except through the government… Human nature’s not gonna change.”
Rogan answers that the government is not going to change either. Wenner disagrees.
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The founder of Rolling Stone magazine wants the government to regulate the internet.
Joe Rogan puts the 🤡 in his place pic.twitter.com/GlmJ42ZDhV— GaryJac (@G___JAK) October 7, 2022
I don’t know Wenner very well and based on how he sounds in this clip, I’m willing to guess that he is intoxicated. At least, I hoe that’s what’s wrong with him. Who in their right mind wants politicians to regulate information?