Re:Why Platformer is leaving Substack
by strangecasts on Friday January 12, 2024 @01:20PM
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> before the company even acted on what we sent them, Substack shared the scope of our findings with another, friendlier publication on the platform
Everything else aside, if they can't help themselves from doing petty stuff like this, why would you let them manage your subscriptions?
> In the end, we found seven that conveyed explicit support for 1930s German Nazis and called for violence against Jews, among other groups. Substack removed one before we sent it to them. The others we sent to the company in a spirit of inquiry: will you remove these clear-cut examples of pro-Nazi speech? The answer to that question was essential to helping us understand whether we could stay.
> It was not, however, a comprehensive review of hate speech on the platform. And to my profound disappointment, before the company even acted on what we sent them, Substack shared the scope of our findings with another, friendlier publication on the platform, along with the information that these publications collectively had few subscribers and were not making money. (It later apologized to me for doing this.)
> The point of this leak, I believe, was to make the entire discussion about hate speech on Nazis on Substack appear to be laughably small: a mountain made out of a molehill by bedwetting liberals.