Say No to Substack
I am kindly asking you to consider moving away from Substack.
The owners of Substack protect far-right speech ... it was part of their founding model.
I suggest using Ghost, which is open-source;
you can still suggest newsletters that you choose, when folks subscribe.
And technology is being developed make a larger federated network for such publishers.
"Substack's position on Nazis only makes sense if you ignore the last eight years of world events and tech policy debates," Melissa Ryan, the CEO of Card Strategies, an expert on far-right extremism, and one of the protest letter's signatories told me. "We know from experience that these choices have dangerous, sometimes deadly consequences."
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