Sort of related to the previous post, here’s Anne Helen Petersen working through the recent Nazis On Substack situation and choosing a different path forward:
So here is what I can promise you, reader: that I will continue to be a thorn in the side of Substack’s leadership when it comes to this issue. That I will continue to use my power as one of its initial writers — one who they use as counter-evidence to the claim that they profit most off anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theories — to hold them to account. That I will try to make this particular home better and safer, because we are all so weary of building new homes only to have the Nazis (and anti-Trans assholes) show up once again and drive us to the fringes - which is where they belong.
I have a direct line to the founders at Substack. And in the weeks to come, I will be re-publishing the emails I send to them every week on Notes. I hope you’ll join me in telling them: to make the spectacularly simple decision to turn off Nazi monetization. Let’s start there.