Substack says it will remove Nazi publications from the platform

schwim , 5 months ago

Had to look up what substack was. Not sure if that speaks more of it’s irrelevance, my ignorance or if it’s a 50/50 split.

520 , 5 months ago

I never heard of these clowns either. You're not alone.

linearchaos , 5 months ago

I heard of substack for the first time when they made the statement that they were absolutely going to allow Nazis. Now that they said they were not going to allow Nazis I went ahead and looked at the front page. It seems to be the same collection of conspiracy theory and alt right loonies that have been chased off of every other social platform

I’m going to guess it’s like Odyssey and there’s some decent content makers deeper in the weeds. But there doesn’t seem to be anybody worthwhile on the front page

YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH , 5 months ago

I’m never coming back. And I was paying for multiple publications. Fuck off you Nazis.

thesporkeffect , 5 months ago

Why now? Maybe they are seeing high profile defections at a higher rate?

mosiacmango , 5 months ago

At the very least, the term "Substack* was becoming synonymous with “Nazis.”

synae , 5 months ago

Still is

SnotFlickerman , 5 months ago

The company said this did not represent a reversal of its previous stance, but rather the result of reconsidering how it interprets its existing policies.

We’re not taking back what we said about how we wouldn’t kick Nazis off the platform… but we’re kicking Nazis off the platform.

What a fucking laugh. Fuck Substack.

swan_pr OP , 5 months ago

I agree, it’s a tiny step in the right direction, but definitely too little too late.

pajn , 5 months ago

It’s not though, like they say themselves it’s only a reconsideration of the existing policies which is to maximize profit, morals be dammed. First they welcomed Nazis because Nazis gave them money and now they don’t because Nazis cause other people to stop giving them money. If Nazis wasn’t bad business nothing would have changed. This whole ordeal showed what kind of people they are.

DragonTypeWyvern , 5 months ago

Plus, they can’t even admit they’re caving to public pressure. Ego-ridden Nazi sympathizers, weird how that keeps happening.

Wrench , 5 months ago

I miss interpreted the rrrrrules

DigitalTraveler42 , 5 months ago

They’ll just do something similar to what Musk did on Shitter initially, pretend to kick them off and then quietly let them back on.

flooppoolf , 5 months ago

I can’t believe we’re praising companies for not being evil dickheads now

SnotFlickerman , 5 months ago

Yeah this deserves no praise. This falls squarely under “Fuck around, find out” since it wasn’t even weeks ago that they said they wouldn’t remove Nazis from the platform.

They’re still angling for a way to allow hate speech on their platform, they’re just hiding behind “taking down content that incites violence” as if that in itself isn’t bare fucking minimum expectation to begin with.