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Substack co-founder: "What if we kissed at the Nazi bar?" (substack.com)
submitted 11 months ago by blakestacey@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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The day just isn't complete without a tiresome retread of freeze peach rhetorical tropes. Oh, it's "important to engage with and understand" white supremacy. That's why we need to boost the voices of white supremacists! And give them money!

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[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

We are still trying to figure out the best way to handle extremism on the internet. But of all the ways we’ve tried so far, Substack is working the best.

All of this is contemptible but for some reason this quote he pulls is the worst bit to me. It's so pompous and so arrogant for a tech bro to describe his Nazi funding company as "a way of handling extremism on the internet." Not even something his company does. Just his company, existing

[–] 200fifty@awful.systems 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

of all the ways we’ve tried so far, Substack is working the best.

The sheer arrogance of this quote is really something to behold. It's "working the best" by what metric, exactly, sir? And who's the "we" that have tried various ways so far, because it's certainly not 'people on the internet,' many of whom have developed ways of dealing with Nazis which are significantly more effective than the substack method of 'literally give them money to use our platform'

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 13 points 11 months ago

Hell, even 4chan deals better with the neonazis than Substack, as 4chan doesn't fucking pay them.

[–] self@awful.systems 10 points 11 months ago

But of all the ways we’ve tried so far, Substack is working the best.

the fucking neoliberal stank on being this loud and proud about consistently doing nothing about nazis

…is what I’d say if this piece of shit wasn’t fucking paying them in direct proportion to how effectively they’ve spread their Nazi shit onto the internet using his terrible fucking blogging platform

god fucking damn I am so tired of these mediocre men controlling every popular part of the internet. when the fuck did it become no longer normal to just ban fascist fuckheads and all their friends on sight? nah I know the answer: when someone realized there was money in catering to the worst fucking people on the planet

[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 8 points 11 months ago

that is the cuntiest tech quote I've heard in a while. "Of all the things we've tried so far..." as if he invented the gated community he probably grew up in,