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Re:Academic Substack: Open, Free, and Subject to Review by sneak on Sunday November 01, 2020 @03:21AM (#24957993)
It’s also worth noting that the Substack founder donates content to alt-right media outlets. It’s one of several reasons why I advise people to avoid their platform.
Re:Academic Substack: Open, Free, and Subject to Review by high_derivative on Sunday November 01, 2020 @03:56AM (#24958154)
Ahh, the vague smear. What is an alt right medium? Any medium posting any content you are politically not aligned with?

Comments like yours prove exactly the value of having something like substack for journalists like Greenwald.

Re:Academic Substack: Open, Free, and Subject to Review by sneak on Sunday November 01, 2020 @11:10AM (#24960378)
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Quillette

I did not intend to be vague, nor to smear anyone, I’m just trying to stay on-topic and not derail this comment thread into where it appears your reply has gone.

I encourage you to reach your own conclusions based on the facts; I am not interested in pushing any particular political alignment. The ongoing (and supremely noisy) American culture war is extremely disinteresting to me, I just want people to have the information to make their own decisions and reach their own conclusions.

Perhaps you like the alt-right and learning that information would make you more eager to use Substack, perhaps not. Either way, it’s better that people have more information than less.

Re:Academic Substack: Open, Free, and Subject to Review by question000 on Sunday November 01, 2020 @10:41AM (#24960167)
Thanks I'm glad someone told me this, I'm from Charlottesville so I'm shocked to hear people say "it's irrelevant."
Re:Academic Substack: Open, Free, and Subject to Review by tehjoker on Sunday November 01, 2020 @03:24AM (#24958016)
Can you provide a link? I did not know this.
Re:Academic Substack: Open, Free, and Subject to Review by tehjoker on Sunday November 01, 2020 @12:29PM (#24960987)
sneak must be referring to an interview Substack founder Chris Best gave in September to Quilette, an alt-right magazine, about Substack.
Re:Academic Substack: Open, Free, and Subject to Review by notankies on Sunday November 01, 2020 @09:30AM (#24959687)
No, because alt-right is just a slur from someone on the left for anything they don't like.

If you want hard evidence you'll have to wait for a real claim.

Re:Academic Substack: Open, Free, and Subject to Review by cblconfederate on Sunday November 01, 2020 @03:32AM (#24958050)
thats irrelevant
Re:Academic Substack: Open, Free, and Subject to Review by sneak on Sunday November 01, 2020 @03:36AM (#24958064)
I disagree.

The choices we make, especially about those with whom we enrich via our business and custom and, increasingly, even attention, matter more than most people realize when it comes to shaping the future of our world. It’s one of the few actually-powerful options still retained by most of the general public, increasingly rare in our modern western world.

It’s quite important that we know who we’re dealing with and to whom we pay money. A good example of the result of ignoring this is the fact that the now-largest hosting provider in the world are also the CIA’s sysadmins.

Doing business blindly with vendors is to pass the steering wheel to someone else, and abdicates a critical individual responsibility.

If you find it irrelevant, you’re free to ignore it, but many people (in my estimation) do not, and I believe we all benefit from having better information about markets, whether it results in endorsement or avoidance. Informed decisions are good decisions.

Re:Academic Substack: Open, Free, and Subject to Review by BurningFrog on Sunday November 01, 2020 @09:46AM (#24959777)
I don't see how splitting society into factions that shun each other leads anywhere good.
Re:Academic Substack: Open, Free, and Subject to Review by sneak on Sunday November 01, 2020 @11:24AM (#24960464)
I think that perhaps the idea that we should split society into shunning factions and the idea that we should care about where we shop (or browse) are entirely separate concepts that aren’t related.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24566226

Re:Academic Substack: Open, Free, and Subject to Review by notankies on Sunday November 01, 2020 @09:42AM (#24959750)
OK, so read your mainstream press, owned by the likes of Bezos, and enjoy your feeling of moral superiority or whatever. Pick your poison.

I'm thankful Substack allows a place for Greenwald and Matt Taibbi and others like them.

I believe homo sapiens is a sexually dimorphic species, however, so I'm probably alt-right in your estimation.

Re:Academic Substack: Open, Free, and Subject to Review by bitmunk on Sunday November 01, 2020 @04:41PM (#24962757)
I love how you assume that he's a Washington Post fan or something like that, if the mere idea of "take in account who's the owner of a media outlet" makes you seethe like this maybe you should rethink what content you're consuming.
Re:Academic Substack: Open, Free, and Subject to Review by tw1912112 on Sunday November 01, 2020 @05:48AM (#24958600)
It's not very healthy to be so politically infatutated, that too with one ideology. You will change, either with age or circumstances and then find yourself having missed certain oppurtunities because you don't find someone politically aligned with you.
Re:Academic Substack: Open, Free, and Subject to Review by newswasboring on Sunday November 01, 2020 @10:44AM (#24960193)
eh... There is a place for your argument, and of course I would agree with you in many cases. But that doesn't mean we should give up on checking our vendor backgrounds entirely. Although OP has not provided a source for these donations, I think we should consider this point. It does not have to be a binary, but it seems like people don't even want to have the spectrum any more. Make a judgement based on your personal morality but it seems like you are advocating not having a personal morality at all.