Nazi content violates rules against incitement to violence, the company says
  • speaker_hat@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Well done, less hatred in our world.

    Nazism is so 30’s, don’t they have something more popular to hate?

  • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    8 months ago

    So the fediverse has missed an opportunity here.

    Get subscriptions into the system, but decentralised (ie, not bound to a single platform / corporation) and you’ve pretty much got substack on the fediverse automatically with authors having all the control substack gives them and more.

    It’s a real no-brainer except that the fediverse’s aversion to money and any sort of “transactional” internet means such things are an afterthought here it seems, unfortunately.

    It saddens me a little, because on top of that, there seems to be relatively little impetus to lean into bringing blogging back on the fediverse (compared to trying to merely clone twitter), when it seems like the perfect fit for the fediverse and its decentralisation (unlike cloning twitter, which won’t really happen on the fediverse TBH). And just when a company could have been taught a lesson the fediverse seems to me to have dropped the ball.

    • RobotToaster@mander.xyzEnglish
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      8 months ago

      there seems to be relatively little impetus to lean into bringing blogging back on the fediverse

      There’s literally a wordpress plugin.

  • tiredofsametab@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    its new policy interpretation will not include proactively removing content related to neo-Nazis and far-right extremism. But Substack will continue to remove any material that includes “credible threats of physical harm

    Not even removing nazi publications

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    8 months ago

    The company said this did not represent a reversal of its previous stance, but rather the result of reconsidering how it interprets its existing policies.

    We’re not taking back what we said about how we wouldn’t kick Nazis off the platform… but we’re kicking Nazis off the platform.

    What a fucking laugh. Fuck Substack.

    • swan_pr@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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      8 months ago

      I agree, it’s a tiny step in the right direction, but definitely too little too late.

      • pajn@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        8 months ago

        It’s not though, like they say themselves it’s only a reconsideration of the existing policies which is to maximize profit, morals be dammed. First they welcomed Nazis because Nazis gave them money and now they don’t because Nazis cause other people to stop giving them money. If Nazis wasn’t bad business nothing would have changed. This whole ordeal showed what kind of people they are.

  • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Am I crazy, or is this Bud Light-levels of corporate idiocy!?

    First they piss off non-Nazis by saying they won’t remove Nazi-speech. Then they cave to the backlash and remove Nazi speech, pissing off all the Nazis (who they obviously wanted to create a “safe space” for). But everyone else won’t be coming back because of the obvious, mask-off intent…

    Even if they didn’t support Nazi publications, it would be hard to stay loyal to such an incompetent company…