Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism
This is basically true for every for profit run publishing platform. Just look how quickly bluesky started accommodating nazis. This is precisely why public forums should be publicly owned instead of being operated by profit seeking corporations.
This isn’t a problem that can be solved through boycotts. It requires actively building open platforms like Lemmy and Mastodon, and getting them to the level of quality that can compete with the dominant private platforms.
The Guardian is hardly better, and it would never platform Gabriel Rockhill, Chris Hedges, Aaron Maté, Caitlin Johnstone, Jonathan Cook, Ben Norton, Kit Klarenberg, etc. Nor would it ever platform three of Lemmy’s own leftists, as it currently does.
From The Guardian’s perspective, the real problem is that they and their peers can no longer control the narrative as well as they used to.
I could be pedantic and comment on Chris Hedges’, Aaron Mate’s, etc. blatant anticommunism, but it’s true. So long as Substack allows bloggers in countries like Palestine and Venezuela that get banned on Bluesky, Mastodon, and Twitter, most criticism of people utilizing it is moot. It’s Patreon blogspot. Do we trust them? Of course not.
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