Comment on Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content

BeautifulMind@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’d love to say that, but unfortunately journalists I respect, who are doing very excellent content that repudiates fascism, don’t really have anywhere else to go. Radley Balko, for example, is a preeminent journalist on the topics of police brutality, law enforcement misdeeds, and failures of the criminal justice system. But WaPo didn’t want to publish him any more, so where does he go?

  I hope they find alternatives, but I’m not going to stop paying for journalism from people like Balko. I don’t want to let white supremacists force any more epistemic closure.

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  • iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In the old days, one would pay a small monthly fee and then you have your own website where you could basically do anything legal that you want. Is this no longer possible?

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    • mo_ztt@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Still 100% possible. Wordpress hosting is cheap and easy. It’s getting harder and harder for that type of site to find a good audience, as the web becomes more and more siloed and the stuff within the silos becomes more tightly interconnected, but some notable people are still doing it. Cory Doctorow comes to mind.

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    • sarmale@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Because Idividual websites would be punished by search engines they were made a part of a bigger one, can we make better search engine to go around this?

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  • mo_ztt@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Almost as if Radley Balko’s publisher deciding whether he was allowed to continue to speak anymore was a bad thing, and giving him a place where he can do it and earn a living and no one polices his content was a good thing.

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  • uhmbah@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Medium?

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    • RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No idea how the compensation structure works on Medium. But I also have no idea what their content moderation policies are either.

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