Is someone tracking the Substack exodus, and who's actually followed up on their public threat to leave if they didn't renounce their oft-stated support of monetizing Nazis (and other bad actors)?
This seems to be the most prominent one (40k subs) I've seen so far, and I love their honesty about the risk and challenges involved.
Doing the right thing is usually the harder choice, but it's definitely a choice.
"Substack’s tools are designed to help publications grow quickly and make lots of money — money that is shared with Substack. That design demands responsible thinking about who will be promoted, and how." @caseynewton
Newton had way more reason to be hesitant about moving than most people who've dithered, but he nails why it's the right thing to do here. Kudos.
Prescient or planned?: “Declaration of war against the Globalist American Empire”-this gamebook was given to #Musk. He appears to have implemented it: Steps *Blame the platform for its users (and the ADL) *Coordinated pressure campaign *Exodus of Bluechecks *Deplatforming. The article was published by a RW blogger, Darren Beattie, a former Trump WH speechwriter, who was fired in 2018 for having spoken on a panel alongside white nationalists. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/was-elon-musks-strategy-twitter-rcna118490
This is a big topic on Monday #Maddow#msnbc Oct 2 2023 That #rightwing#maga WANTS TO KEEP the USA WHITE by using TWITTER
Possibly connected to this (make #musk convert #xitter into a #nazibar) is this podcast (SEE IMAGES) $13 Billion USD of Twitter is owned by investers who are meeting today. They have tried to offload the loan at 60cents to the dollar, but no buyers
(this is not part of the #saudiarabia money invested)
》Ben Brody, 22, claims his life was upended in June when right-wing accounts falsely identified him as a participant in a neo-Nazi brawl in Oregon. Musk amplified those false allegations, repeating them days after people told him that Brody was uninvolved with the group.
If Trump's holding company doesn't complete a merger with Digital World Acquisition Corporation then they need to liquidate and return $300 million to their investors
The investors?
The same idiots who bought Trump bucks or any of his other grifts
And when truth social folds, guess where they are all going…?
The comparison to a nation is very weak. You can leave one bar and find another or drink in the back yard with your friends. It is not like you chose where you first had citizenship and leaving is not as simple as leaving a bar.
Note to anyone who references the #ParadoxOfTolerance. What Karl Popper said was;
"If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant..."
With the exception of a few naive teenage libertarians, nobody is advocating unlimited tolerance. We're just arguing against abandoning tolerance to the point of dehumanizing people who hold intolerant views.
So the vast majority of handwaves at the PoT are slaughtering strawmen. The obvious response being to quote Nietzsche...
For everyone who invokes the "Nazi bar" story in arguments for suppressing certain speech on the internet, here's a thought experiment for you.
Note: it's not necessary to agree with any of the arguments presented here to run the experiment. If you read the posts in context, I think it's pretty clear that despite my defence of Palestinian human rights - including the right to political autonomy - I disagree with most of the arguments presented here.
@jeffjarvis I spent a few minutes going back to my Twitter account and blocking everyone I follow/am followed with a blue checkmark. Doubt any celebrity will know or care about me but if enough treat it as a mark of shame, they'll leave the #nazibar. The smaller accounts paying for it may notice first. #eightbuckschmuck