The platform I have used (up until now) to communicate with my email subscribers seems to have been profiting from White Supremacy posts, self-proclaimed Nazis, some with over 10,000 paid subscribers (a percentage of their subscriptions goes toward paying Substack’s bills).
I will no doubt be leaving Substack and concentrating on another platform — perhaps Wix, which supports my website, or this Medium, where you’re reading this now. We’ll see. Everyone has their issues and I have much research to do.
My questions are:
- How do I know that my next platform of choice isn’t supporting the same voices? I’m pretty sure Medium doesn’t put up with this, but how can I be sure? I only found out about Substack’s problems because I follow Margaret Atwood on that platform (see her very informative post below). Not sure how to verify this stuff, but it must be true because even The Atlantic did a piece on it.
- Isn’t leaving that platform kind of like abandoning my responsibility to keep speaking up for the world I want to live in? If I left — or, if all of us who disagreed with White Supremacy left Substack — wouldn’t that give their dangerous concepts a better chance to accumulate, concentrate and grow more powerful?
- I’m watching Noam Chomsky on Masterclass. The way he breaks down how the masses are manipulated, combined with the presence now of AI, makes me distrustful of everything I read or see on the media. How do I know…
