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.
Comment on Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content
RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world 11 months agoI’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.
mo_ztt@lemmy.world 11 months ago
uhmbah@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Medium?
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.
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?
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.
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?