@lcamtuf If you like I could share with you some screenshots.

https://marshray.substack.com/p/i-am-gone-from-substack-until-they -take-out-the-garbage

To save you a click:

“Substack hosts accounts of literal fans of Adolph Hitler, posting their swastikas and holocaust denials. They are publishing literal translations of 1930-1940’s Nazi SS propaganda documents and antisemitic tracts. I won’t link to this stuff, but I have screenshots.

I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect a general-purpose platform to host only content that I agree with. I don’t condone “cancel culture”. But there is a line beyond which you won’t find me participating, and there is another line at which I am compelled to actively speak out.

What Substack has chosen to publish is beyond all bounds of polite society. It is beyond internet “edgelord” culture. It is beyond “offensive” or “harmful”, it is solidly in the “explicitly racist extremism” category.

Substack is literally hosting the promotional material of a declared-war enemy of the United States of America, content for which Americans were at one time tried and convicted of treason1. You may feel that we shouldn’t bring that up because Nazi Germany was defeated a long time ago and things are different now. Well, I would like to move past that too, but we just can’t use that logic when discussing actual efforts to promote literal 1940’s German Nazism.”

@lcamtuf "scale of J.K. Rowling to Stormfront" is there an SI equivalent of this?

@lcamtuf Besides, Substack has RSS feeds, here's yours: https://lcamtuf.substack.com/feed

Substack offers two platform independent ways to subscribe: one that just works and another that integrates into people's existing setups. If there's anything to complain about, it's not how they do subscriptions

@lcamtuf I think part of the problem is that we have a lot of people that want the world to change for the better which is good, but they are generally directing their energy towards complaining about what they feel is bad, which is OK, but then they are also directing their anger and outrage towards the people that are using those services or products, which is maybe not so great.

Imagine if the people that were angry about things put their effort into constructive effort like the civil rights movement did, or the suffragettes or any other number of movements that actually affected positive change in the world.

@lcamtuf @marshray

“I just want to make it clear that we don’t like Nazis either—we wish no-one held those views. But some people do hold those and other extreme views. Given that, we don’t think that censorship (including through demonetizing publications) makes the problem go away—in fact, it makes it worse.”

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/21/24011232/substack-nazi-moderation-demonetization-hamish-mckenzie

@lcamtuf
Hey, I eventually switched my RSS feed over.