Substack Says It Will Not Ban Nazis or Extremist Speech

Re:Substack Says It Will Not Ban Nazis or Extremist Speech by sturz on Saturday December 23, 2023 @01:05PM (#38746425)

Substack has done an excellent job of showcasing how much writers need editors. I live my life in between the two awful worlds of programmers who have never had a humanities class and are therefore functionally illiterate, and writers who are so fearful of technology and are unable to move past the need for a "platform."

The publishers that most writers adore would never profit from white supremacy, yet they are fine with a middleman, no different than airbnb and Uber, that has no publishing standards because self-publishing on a blog or something similar is some antiquated symbol of failure in the modern literary mind.

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Re:Substack Says It Will Not Ban Nazis or Extremist Speech by up2isomorphism on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @05:24AM (#38770471)

"Nazi or extremist speech" is not a well-defined term in fact very dangerous term to be used as a censorship term. It is very similar to a typical dictator ship law term such as "looting or other disturbing activities", the key to combine a relatively well-defined term with a very extended not well defined term so it gives it enlarged power of arbitration.

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