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This is such a weird take. There are countless platforms that do try to lock content creators in. Substack doesn't - you can literally export the list of all email addresses of your subscribers at any time, with a single click of a button. Your content is easy to export too. There's literally nothing forcing you to keep using Substack if it's no longer providing any value to you as a writer.

The article doesn't really refute this, it just casts random aspersions, brings up political extremism, and whatnot. OK, you can dislike Substack for their speech policy, but that's tangential to the claim the article opens with.