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>The newsletter platform Substack rose to prominence with a permissive approach to online speech, attracting big-name writers who felt “canceled” by the mainstream media for their conservative or libertarian rhetoric.
>Criticized in December for tolerating Nazis and white supremacists on its platform, Substack doubled down, saying that “censorship” wouldn’t “make the problem go away. But facing a revolt from some of its writers and readers, the San Francisco-based start-up shifted course Monday, banning five obscure accounts that it said had violated its policies. The move, first reported by the Substack-based tech blog Platformer, did not affect larger accounts linked with right-wing extremism, the company confirmed to The Washington Post.
>In December, some 250 Substack authors wrote an open letter to the company titled “Substackers against Nazis,” calling on it to ban any accounts that traffic in “white nationalism.” Noting that Substack does appear to enforce its rules against some types of content, such as pornography, the group asked the company’s founders, “Is platforming Nazis part of your vision of success? Let us know — from there we can each decide if this is still where we want to be.”
The "Andkon's Reich Press" has been banned eight days ago, and it was explicitly linked in many of the articles. The purge has begun.
amren.com/news/2024/01/substack-wanted-to-be-neutral-its-tolerance-of-nazis-proved-divisive/
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