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by lunatuna 571 days ago
At first I thought that substack was part of the Thiel/Musk enterprise or some other messed up billionaire club of political engineering, but not much was offered. Say "Substak is . . . a political project made by extremists . . ." Can't see any evidence of it here.

The other angle I could see is Substack is algo'ing neo-nazi content to folks. But I can't go to cancel mode just for hosting. I can see that getting reductive - who's the hypersaler, who provided the electrons, who's sold them the servers . . . there is no end. It really needs to end with reader.
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philistine 571 days ago
There's this continued idea to deplatform far-right bigots trying to make money online. Some will woefully let them speak their bile, but stop them at trying to make money. For example, you can't, if you're a nazi, start a Patreon.

Substack lets nazis make money.

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theendisney 571 days ago
Why? We need to know they exist and to explain what is wrong with their view.

Some will eventually think it better if you dont talk either. Lots of stuff you are not suppose to know.

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philistine 570 days ago
You sure we absolutely need a newsletter website that is in a business arrangement with people who want to kill people based on the colour of their skin?

Not just letting them on the platform, allowing them to make money off off their bigotry.

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theendisney 570 days ago
They will do it anyway. How do you know it is bigotry if no one can see it? Do we take someones word for it?

If the speech is illegal where they live they can be persecuted properly. Not trialed by corporate robot.

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bdangubic 571 days ago
nazis need to eat too…
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philistine 570 days ago
They can do a job that is not directly correlated to their stupid views. You're not entitled to make money with your speech.
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bdangubic 570 days ago
Not entitled but of course can’t be legally prevented from doing so unless we want to re-write the Constitution…
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philistine 570 days ago
Who do you think I am, Uncle Sam? Holding each others to standards of who we allow on our platforms has nothing to do with freedom of speech in the US constitution. The US constitution does not force anyone, even the government, to provide a platform.
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bdangubic 570 days ago
this is like saying the US constitution does not force anyone to talk (true that)...

however of course, it does preserve the right of someone to do so, if one chooses...

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