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Re:Medium rolls out a payment model for writers based on eng... by tenpies on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @01:00PM (#15083144)
I think we just traded a bad system for a worst one. Could you imagine what would happen if Nabokov attempted to release Lolita in 2017 using a blog? Google/Facebook would ban him before he even got chapter 2 posted and there would probably be a SJW brigade trying to dox him so they can destroy his life.

Same goes for any book that is even mildly controversial. At the end of the day all these platforms are advertising delivery mechanisms and controversy is just not advertiser-friendly.

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Re:Medium rolls out a payment model for writers based on eng... by mirimir on Thursday August 24, 2017 @01:48AM (#15087866)
Well, he published Lolita through Olympia Press. According to Wikipedia, it was "Paris-based", and "specialized in books which could not be published (without legal action) in the English-speaking world".

The equivalent today would arguably be a Tor onion site. Or perhaps Freenet. Sure, Google and Facebook would ban him. But then, in the 1950s, American publishers did ban him. Until the 60s happened, anyway.

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