Substack removes multiple newsletters including pro-Nazi content amid growing pressure | CNN Business
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Substack has removed several publications for inciting violence, the newsletter publisher said in a statement shared with CNN Tuesday, as writers from across the platform threaten to quit over the presence of pro-Nazi content.

Although the platform has explicit guidelines banning content that incites violence, a November article in The Atlantic pointed out at least 16 different newsletters with Nazi symbols, as well as many more supporting far-right extremism, leading to calls for change from many Substack authors and a refusal from leadership.

  • PoliticalAgitator@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Oh bullshit. Any healthy company should have no problem sorting “controversial opinions” from “far-right extremism that grooms domestic terrorists” and they’re not going to get addicted to banning in the process.

    Whenever I see these slippery slope arguments, the top of the slope always just happens to align with the views of the person arguing (or the views of the person they uncritically adopted their opinions from).

    If Substack became riddled with CSAM, would you be in the comments patting them on the back? Because as we all know, deplatforming images of children being raped leads to deplatforming mask off neonazis before eventually leading to innocent Palestinians and LGBT users being banned too.