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   Osma A (osma@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2023 19:55:14 JST Osma A

   It's fine to be mad at Substack - in fact, you probably should be. But they're not the start of the problem. The credit card associations are. These organizations, which should simply enable cross border payment according to international law, also enforce very idiosyncratic rules on what classes of business are allowed to receive payment. In those rules, for example
   Nazism is fine, but sex work is bad.

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     Osma A (osma@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2023 19:55:14 JST Osma A

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     It's the rules of Visa, MasterCard and Amex which both enable Substack to host and monetize fascist content, and predicated Wirecard's ascent both to a payments powerhouse AND russia's primary agent in the European finance market and German national intelligence.

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     Osma A (osma@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2023 19:55:27 JST Osma A

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     • Derek Powazek 🐐

     So while for sure Substack must be held accountable for their own decisions, and there is no reasonable defense to distributing and monetizing fascism, consider the entirety of the ecosystem. There are parties who are far, far harder to circumvent, but should be held equally of not more accountable.
     RT @fraying
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