Joe Rogan Experience #2571 - Jimmy Carr · Aired Oct 28, 2026
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Books are destroyed to deny others access to the literature.
The finding
What remains unresolved
Joe Rogan: Order concerns replacing purchased paper copies with digital copies and distinguishes pirate acquisitions. It does not establish eradication of other copies or censorship motive. Destructive scanning fact is real; motive remains unsettled.
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Is it true that Books are destroyed to deny others access to the literature?
We can't say yet. Joe Rogan: Order concerns replacing purchased paper copies with digital copies and distinguishes pirate acquisitions. It does not establish eradication of other copies or censorship motive. It was said on Joe Rogan Experience #2571 - Jimmy Carr, aired Oct 28, 2026, at 2:07:13. We haven't independently confirmed who said it. We couldn't settle it from the evidence we captured, so it stays an open question, not a false claim. The supporting source is hunton.com, linked below.
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