Marisa I am so thankful for you speaking out about platforming Nazis. I am lucky I have not run across any of these heathens.
When I was a young schoolgirl we learned about Nazis in WW2. I remember feeling grateful Nazis were gone. Early in 2015 I saw glimpses of a resurgence. Each year that has passed my heartbreaks a little more.
I can see Nazis and Nazi sympathizers crawling from under the rocks since trump. Each platform has fought off and then accepted these evil menaces.
I thought SubStack was a place where people were protected. This has nothing to do with free speech. These are people who wish people are never born and would just die.
Please SubStack stop platforming the vile and evil hate mongers. Look at the revenue you will lose. Do you think your large Liberal accounts will stay with you? I wouldn't count on it. We will follow them to another platform and you will lose all those percentages.
Good morning Marisa, I see in Notes that a well-respected large subscriber base publisher, Margaret Atwood, has joined the protest-discussion. With 10,000+ readers she certainly can reach many individuals, especially given the wide array of reader interests she covers with her writings. This is important; why you might ask? Because as much attention as anyone might think this matter has received to date there is a high probability that many, if not most of the larger audience publishers here on Substack probably are actually unaware of the Nazi presence on Substack issue. This is due to what I theorize to be something that I have come to think of as the silo effect nature of Substack’s unique website architecture.
Setting aside for the moment an explanation of my observations and resultant nascent theory; if everyone truly wants to gain a genuinely serious movement towards forcing the website to uphold its own terms of service then it will be necessary to enjoin some of the largest subscriber base and significant publishers to this effort, of which several come to mind. Perhaps the number one potentially most influential voice on this platform is “the queen of Substack” Heather Cox Richardson. Because of the silo effect and what I suspect is a lack of attention on her part to the notes feature, and I what I suspect might be a slight tweaking of the algorithmic processes she is the most difficult individual publisher to reach with this type of thing.
So with that in mind, I would like to suggest that a concerted effort to reach her with dedicated efforts via comments to her daily letters, along with email replies to her actual emailed newsletters, to ask her what she thinks about this issue and to call out to her to enjoin the protest-discussion. The same strategy and tactic should also be broadened to include other high value voices.
It seems the far right has become quite comfortable saying the quiet part out loud, in a number of situations recently... 😒
Marisa I am so thankful for you speaking out about platforming Nazis. I am lucky I have not run across any of these heathens.
When I was a young schoolgirl we learned about Nazis in WW2. I remember feeling grateful Nazis were gone. Early in 2015 I saw glimpses of a resurgence. Each year that has passed my heartbreaks a little more.
I can see Nazis and Nazi sympathizers crawling from under the rocks since trump. Each platform has fought off and then accepted these evil menaces.
I thought SubStack was a place where people were protected. This has nothing to do with free speech. These are people who wish people are never born and would just die.
Please SubStack stop platforming the vile and evil hate mongers. Look at the revenue you will lose. Do you think your large Liberal accounts will stay with you? I wouldn't count on it. We will follow them to another platform and you will lose all those percentages.
I've struggled with this for the past month. Writing about it over the year-end I've come out staying. The "marketplace of ideas" rationale offered by management is lazy and they owe us better tools to moderate our on our own. https://open.substack.com/pub/technocratic/p/does-nazi-political-speech-have-a
Good morning Marisa, I see in Notes that a well-respected large subscriber base publisher, Margaret Atwood, has joined the protest-discussion. With 10,000+ readers she certainly can reach many individuals, especially given the wide array of reader interests she covers with her writings. This is important; why you might ask? Because as much attention as anyone might think this matter has received to date there is a high probability that many, if not most of the larger audience publishers here on Substack probably are actually unaware of the Nazi presence on Substack issue. This is due to what I theorize to be something that I have come to think of as the silo effect nature of Substack’s unique website architecture.
Setting aside for the moment an explanation of my observations and resultant nascent theory; if everyone truly wants to gain a genuinely serious movement towards forcing the website to uphold its own terms of service then it will be necessary to enjoin some of the largest subscriber base and significant publishers to this effort, of which several come to mind. Perhaps the number one potentially most influential voice on this platform is “the queen of Substack” Heather Cox Richardson. Because of the silo effect and what I suspect is a lack of attention on her part to the notes feature, and I what I suspect might be a slight tweaking of the algorithmic processes she is the most difficult individual publisher to reach with this type of thing.
So with that in mind, I would like to suggest that a concerted effort to reach her with dedicated efforts via comments to her daily letters, along with email replies to her actual emailed newsletters, to ask her what she thinks about this issue and to call out to her to enjoin the protest-discussion. The same strategy and tactic should also be broadened to include other high value voices.
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