Comment on Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content
fubo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
To be clear — what McKenzie is saying here is that his company will continue to pay Nazis to write Nazi essays.
Comment on Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content
fubo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
To be clear — what McKenzie is saying here is that his company will continue to pay Nazis to write Nazi essays.
mo_ztt@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Not exactly. Substack subscribers pay subscription fees, the content author keeps roughly 80% of the fees, and the rest goes to Substack or to offset hosting costs. The Nazi subscribers are paying the Nazi publishers, and money is flowing from the Nazi subscribers to Substack because of that operation (not away from Substack as it would be if they hired Nazis).
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This ignores that the platform is needed for that income to be possible. But truly you’re just being pedantic
mo_ztt@lemmy.world 10 months ago
How is it pedantic to point out that “will pay for them” means “will get paid by them”?
There’s a perfectly good argument to be made that Substack shouldn’t host Nazis even if they’re making money off them. But that wasn’t your message; your message was, they’re hiring Nazis. It’s relevant whether they’re materially supporting the Nazis, or being materially supported by them.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It wasn’t my message, but it certainly made sense to me and still does. whereas your message makes sense but in a totally different way. It’s basically “nuh-uh”
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s splitting hairs. Salespeople who work on commission are keeping an amount of what they make for the company, but I doubt many people would claim they aren’t being paid to sell a product.
be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 10 months ago
They are being paid by subscribers, not by substack. I am not on substack's side here, but that detail seems quite relevant if we're interested in painting an accurate picture of what's going on.
If they were putting Nazi content on substack and no individuals were subscribing to read it, they would be earning 0.
Substack is profiting from those same subscribers, no doubt.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Again- If you sold widgets door-to-door for a 20% commission, would you say you were being paid by the people who buy the widgets? I doubt many would.