If you use Substack, move to another platform.
If you subscribe to something on it, pressure the authors to move to another platform. If they don’t, cancel your subscription.
Substack refuses to stop financing Nazis.
It should be noted that they happily censor other things, like naked people who wish harm to no one.
@thomasfuchs I think it should also be noted that this is not new. They've literally been using Nazi-adjacent folks to help boost awareness that the platform exists since launch, and I've been screaming into the void about it for years.
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"
OH, !! I found it.
https://thehypothesis.substack.com/p/heres-why-substacks-scam-worked-so
Early 2021 article. Wish it had gotten more attention back then.
Substack has been intentionally aiming to be a Nazi bar from the start.
As @Popehat observes, it's a marketing decision.
https://popehat.substack.com/p/substack-has-a-nazi-opportunity
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.
@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.