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Robert J. Rei's avatar

I very much enjoyed reading this essay. I too am conflicted about the fact that extremists entities are finding opportunities to develop streams of income via Substack and also, no doubt, using their publications to radicalize and coordinate others into the currently genuine threat of Fascism becoming normalized in our liberal democracy. Especially given that I also must take into the factor of my having invested a small amount of money into the Substack stock option offering that took place earlier this year via a website known as WeFunder.

In any event Substack serves a valuable purpose for me, and as such I think that it worthwhile to stay and fight this issue out right here on the platform itself; for as you mention perhaps the perspective individual publishers like us can make a difference not only with our words, but also by supporting one another fiscally within reasonable parameters.

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dan tynan's avatar

Thank you for your responses to Elle Griffin's Open Letter. I am not a paid subscriber there, so I couldn't weigh in. She seems hopelessly naive. I am struggling with my own decision about leaving Substack; I don't think Substack's recent 'gesture' toward removing the worst of the worst (after getting confronted by Casey at The Platformer) is going to change things much.

Anyway. I wrote a bit about that here:

https://crankyolddan.substack.com/p/why-the-internet-sucks-and-what-you

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