If you don’t want to support racism, transphobia, and other forms of hate, then maybe you don’t want to use Substack. While there has been quite a bit written about alternatives for publishers, there has never been a good answer for readers – until now. Let me walk through the situation and discuss a new web browser plugin that will allow you to avoid giving Substack your clicks and prevent them from monetizing hate. The Substack Problem The most epic deep dive into why Substack is a problem is a 2023 article in the Atlantic called Substack Has a Nazi Problem (paywall). Author Jonathan M. Katz writes: The newsletter-hosting site Substack advertises itself as the last, best hope for civility on the internet—and aspires to a bigger role in politics in 2024. But just beneath the surface, the platform has become a home and propagator of white supremacy and anti-Semitism. Substack has not only been hosting writers who post overtly Nazi rhetoric on the platform; it profits from many of…
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