ugh I can't find it right now but several years ago there was a great writeup of all the hard "alt right" people who substack had reached out to and were funding out of their investment money to make the platform seem like a good earning opportunity for writers.

It was before they had enough paying users to actually have anyone be able to self-sustain by writing there.

To the question "who do we want to represent success on our platform" they answered nazi "sympathizers"

Substack has been intentionally aiming to be a Nazi bar from the start.

As @Popehat observes, it's a marketing decision.
popehat.substack.com/p/substac

That disingenuous apologia for being a Nazi bar by McKenzie@Substack is either severe ignorance on his part, or overt propaganda and gaslighting. Yeah, yeah, he's not suffering from such ignorance; this is deliberate.

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@tab2space @Popehat @OliverUv Interestingly, you are linking to a substack-hosted article.😂 It argues quite compellingly against the "nazi bar" label.

I think the main argument here is problematic, though. It appears to be basically this: Substack's policies aren't exactly equal to the 1st ammendment, therefore they are BS ("puffery"). I don't get it.

@tab2space @Popehat @OliverUv And for good measure he throws in the canard about free speech only being a government thing.

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