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   Tony Stubblebine (coachtony@me.dm)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2023 11:43:51 JST Tony Stubblebine

   So Substack is pro nazi now? I guess that’s good news for nazis.

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     Tony Stubblebine (coachtony@me.dm)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2023 11:43:59 JST Tony Stubblebine

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     The case I know for a platform to be anti-nazi comes in two parts:

     A) duh
     B) not having your platform overrun by divisive morons leaves more oxygen for people to talk about things with substance.

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     Tony Stubblebine (coachtony@me.dm)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2023 11:44:05 JST Tony Stubblebine

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     Some of this “platforms have to be pure free speech” areas reeks of outdated startup thinking about needing to achieve monopolies. It’s not a good experience for the consumer.

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     John Socks (john@socks.masto.host)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2023 20:21:30 JST John Socks

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     @coachtony This essay, at the Sunlight Foundation, talking about a famous quote, seems to capture the feeling of the web 2009:

     https://sunlightfoundation.com/2009/05/26/brandeis-and-the-history-of-transparency/

     One way to look at the Substack essay is that they are still back in that era, and haven't learned from the following 10 years.

     Light shining on terrible ideas was not in fact enough to make them dissipate. Rather horribly, we learned that they can gather force.