Anti-vaxxers making ‘at least $2.5m’ a year from publishing on Substack

Re:Anti-vaxxers making ‘at least $2.5m’ a year from publishi... by throwawaygh on Thursday January 27, 2022 @04:38PM (#30107116)

The relevant debate is not about "freedom of speech", but about "freedom to profit from running a platform for others' speech".

I have no issue with substack as a platform. My issue is with substack the Delaware C Corp.

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Re:Anti-vaxxers making ‘at least $2.5m’ a year from publishi... by brigandish on Thursday January 27, 2022 @07:44PM (#30109264)

If one type of speech can be made money from but another type cannot by dint of being rendered a different class of speech then it’s hard to see how it’s free.

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Re:Anti-vaxxers making ‘at least $2.5m’ a year from publishi... by throwawaygh on Friday January 28, 2022 @02:50AM (#30111821)

I don't understand what you are saying.

Freedom to speak and freedom to profit from coordinating a platform for speech are different things. If you think "my ability to make money on social media platform capitalism" and "the original intent of the first amendment" are the same thing, then we have no common ground about what America is or means.

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Re:Anti-vaxxers making ‘at least $2.5m’ a year from publishi... by brigandish on Friday January 28, 2022 @08:40AM (#30114415)

> If you think "my ability to make money on social media platform capitalism" and "the original intent of the first amendment" are the same thing, then we have no common ground about what America is or means.

I don't. Thanks for letting me clear that up.

> Freedom to speak and freedom to profit from coordinating a platform for speech are different things.

Let's accept it because you've written it. What is it that you object to in either the freedom to speak or the freedom - via any means (freedom, right?) - to profit from it?

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