Comment on Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content
be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 10 months agoThey 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.
be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 10 months ago
In that case I'd be selling something made by the entity giving me commission - what people want and pay for is something made by someone other than me. In this case the people creating the content are the same people drawing the subscribers, so it's more accurate to say substack takes a cut of their subscription income than to say substack pays them.
If I stop selling widgets the company still has the exact same widgets and can get anyone else to sell them. If a renowned nazi writer (bleh) takes their content to another platform, substack no longer has that content (or the author's presence on their platform) to profit from.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sort of like Substack’s servers then?
be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 10 months ago
You think the platform is the widget, I think the content is the widget. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.