This is known for a long time already and the reason why I boycott Substack. If you publish there, you are supporting right wing propaganda. Find a different platform!
If you publish there, you are supporting right wing propaganda.
Not how taking a cut of subscription revenue works. If you publish right wing propaganda, then maybe you have a point.
How does utilizing and profiting from a service known to promote and profit extremist ideology not aid that service in the promotion thereof? By taking a portion of the profits, you direct traffic and money to the service, which is then directed to extremists. Seems pretty clearcut to me.
… Don’t they take a cut of most subs?
Yes, and that’s exactly why the article is important. They can either hide behind a “we are just a vehicle for posters” or they can refuse to host the content. They are choosing the former.
Yes, and that’s exactly why the article is important.
Explaining to us how subscriptions work like we’re idiots is important? Or was that common knowledge a revelation for you?
It does seem like the headline + mechanics are entirely uninteresting and unsurprising. I guess the ‘newsworthy’ thing here is that substack platforms the neo-natzis?
It also platforms a bunch of ex-guardian journalists, who will say plenty about the harm being done by corporate buyouts and influence in traditional media. So I have a hard time taking this article, from this venue, very seriously.
For example: fox news, every podcast service, the opinion pages (and some news sections) of most major newspapers, and (I assume) more have all been profiting off of amplifying fringe right-wing folks. Is substack substantially worse? Are they doing anything policy wise that we should advocate for? Regulators who aren’t doing something they should?
Most subs aren’t comprised of almost exclusively hate speech.
They take a cut of all paid subs.
Casey Newton wrote about this a lot two years ago: https://www.platformer.news/why-platformer-is-leaving-substack/
Is everyone really advocating for some substack CEO to start deplatforming people based on ideology? How quickly do you reckon that will be weaponized to deplatform any anti-zionist content? I’d take an ‘open for all’ framework over arbitrary deplatforming based on ideology every day of the week. Particularly considering the ‘new definition’ of anti-Semitism being adopted everywhere that equates most criticism of the state of Israel with anti-Semitism.
It doesn’t have to be all or nothing. Policies on hate speech could include automatic fact checking and community notes displayed to every reader.
If fact checking is deplatforming the alt right, then well, problem solved.
Can’t you see what British Corporate Media (e g. Guardian) is trying to do?!
https://open.substack.com/pub/the307/p/british-corporate-media-is-pushing
Use Ghost (or any other Substack alternatives that DOESN’T promote hatefulness and harassment)
Nazis can use Ghost too.
But has Ghost ever sent out swastikas in push notifications?
Idk, I deny push notifications for most apps anyway.
So what other website people should use instead of Ghost or Substack?
Idk, it depends on what they’re trying to do.
Austerity, ignorance, and scarcity breed fascists, not a SaaS TOS.
The alternative to austerity, ignorance and scarcity is prosperity, love and abundance
It sounds cheesy but you’re not wrong.
