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.
"In the end, though, the decision was pretty clear: it was time to move on from #Substack. I wasn't going to spend so much time and energy on my writing just to have to try to ignore that a rather large cut of the money I make here goes towards a company that thinks Nazi 'discourse' is more important than the very real harms of providing these people a platform and revenue...
Welcome to my antifascist living room." @molly0xfff
"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.
》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.