At the time, Substack CEO Hamish McKenzie addressed the mounting concerns about Substack’s aggressively hands-off approach in a note on the website, observing that while “we don’t like Nazis either,” Substack would break with content moderation norms by continuing to host extremist content, including newsletters by Nazis and other white supremacists.
“We will continue to actively enforce those rules while offering tools that let readers curate their own experiences and opt in to their preferred communities,” McKenzie wrote. “Beyond that, we will stick to our decentralized approach to content moderation, which gives power to readers and writers.”
Later, once people pointed out: that means Nazis are welcome, they removed a few especially blatant examples… and changed nothing else. They still won’t do any work, themselves, to stop taking money from fascists. They just wait until people complain loudly enough, and then maybe they’ll get around to it, on a case-by-case basis.
They literally did not even change their rules. Or their reporting system, which sends reports to the writer, not to Substack. So even the ‘hey this guy’s a fucking Nazi’ feedback they’re supposedly listening to now has to reach them through Twitter or whatever.
The admins of the platform demonstrably did not give a shit about Nazis on their platform. Effectively, they still don’t. Stop squirming.
As much as you have a point about the lacklustre response to literal fascism on the platform - Your point is a little tarnished by the fact that you’re currently complaining about said platform, on a separate platform that currently houses child pornography, anti-trans rhetoric, and Nazi sympathetic views, amongst a plethora of other disgusting things, arguably a worse situation than Substack currently finds itself in.
Don’t mistake this for me defending Substack, that kind of shit should be rooted out at the stem and destroyed wherever it is, but let’s not sit up on our high horses here.
Pictured: squirming. Desperate grasping for some way to nuh-uh despite being proven dead fucking wrong about smug tutting. Not even relevant bullshit, because Lemmy is a protocol, not a a platform. Like you e-mailed me back to whine that some people e-mail death threats.
Substack is a centralized website run by exactly one group of people, and those people don’t care about Nazis. My instance is one of many Lemmy instances, and Nazis have been told to fuck off from day one.
You accused someone of stupid selfish reasons. You were corrected. Deal with it on your own terms.
This is inaccurate. They backtracked pretty heavily on their earlier stance. Which by the way, was never ‘Nazis are welcome’
Misinformation is wild these days.
They explicitly said they would not remove Nazi content.
Later, once people pointed out: that means Nazis are welcome, they removed a few especially blatant examples… and changed nothing else. They still won’t do any work, themselves, to stop taking money from fascists. They just wait until people complain loudly enough, and then maybe they’ll get around to it, on a case-by-case basis.
They literally did not even change their rules. Or their reporting system, which sends reports to the writer, not to Substack. So even the ‘hey this guy’s a fucking Nazi’ feedback they’re supposedly listening to now has to reach them through Twitter or whatever.
The admins of the platform demonstrably did not give a shit about Nazis on their platform. Effectively, they still don’t. Stop squirming.
As much as you have a point about the lacklustre response to literal fascism on the platform - Your point is a little tarnished by the fact that you’re currently complaining about said platform, on a separate platform that currently houses child pornography, anti-trans rhetoric, and Nazi sympathetic views, amongst a plethora of other disgusting things, arguably a worse situation than Substack currently finds itself in.
Don’t mistake this for me defending Substack, that kind of shit should be rooted out at the stem and destroyed wherever it is, but let’s not sit up on our high horses here.
Pictured: squirming. Desperate grasping for some way to nuh-uh despite being proven dead fucking wrong about smug tutting. Not even relevant bullshit, because Lemmy is a protocol, not a a platform. Like you e-mailed me back to whine that some people e-mail death threats.
Substack is a centralized website run by exactly one group of people, and those people don’t care about Nazis. My instance is one of many Lemmy instances, and Nazis have been told to fuck off from day one.
You accused someone of stupid selfish reasons. You were corrected. Deal with it on your own terms.
Damn dude, you didn’t have to start edgy role-playing at me…
Troll harder.