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Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content (www.theverge.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They just really, really love running Nazi bars. They just don't like it when the normies realizes that the neighbourhood bar is a Nazi bar.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

i go back and forth on how much i think this tendency's willingness to host content like this and/or go to the mat for it is agreement and how much of it is just stupidity or ill-conceived ideology. a lot of these guys seem like they agree with elements of fascism, but a lot of them are also... just not smart.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The Nazi bar analogy says nothing about agreement. Just that failing to remove Nazis from your bar is a great way to flood your bar with Nazis, because once they know its safe for them to Nazi it up in your establishment, they'll tell their friends about you.

If you don't proactively remove the Nazis, you're creating a Nazi safe space, whether you agree with them or not.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

i am familiar with the analogy, but i think it would obviously be worse if they agree with what they're platforming instead of just being kind of half-baked morons who don't have good political positions or cynically platforming it because it makes them money. one can, in effect, be remedied by showing them social or financial retribution, but the other would be a manifestation of a much more serious social problem that cannot be immediately dealt with

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I think you have to look at the money here. The most charitable view for substack is their payment provider doesn't ban Nazis, and their VC funders don't want them to ban Nazis, and so they don't really have a choice.

I think substack is well up for being a nazi bar based on what they've said so I'm happy to give them some blame but I won't be letting the other two off the hook either.