Substack will remove [some] Nazi publications
from Casey Newton at Platformer
Well, this decision (which they emphasize is not a change to their policies but a new interpretation of them, a phrasing I’d put firmly in the category of weasel words) is something, not very much, but something. And a number of people commenting on it suspect the major motivator for “reinterpreting” was Newton’s threat to leave (he has one of the biggest Substacks in term of subscribers/paid subscribers on the program; and apparently a significant number of people overall cancelled paying subscriptions).
But it’s something. I have been poking around on Substack and found a number of right-wing, alt-right, perhaps even far-right, newsletters on Tolkien.
I can recommend subscribing to Newton’s “Platformer” — lots of good stuff there! — and he’s clearly not going to let this drop.