Post AdiDffk7mdUfUd1KFc by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
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 (DIR) Post #AdgQZyFFNauizwGMsK by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2024-01-09T22:30:12Z
       
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       I've only just got back in the studio for the new calendar year, and there's already yet another online mob forming against freedom of expression, this time targeting SubStack. I agree with #ElleGriffin;"Substack shouldn’t decide what we read.We should."https://www.elysian.press/p/substack-writers-for-community-moderationThe SubStack founders agree, and that's why I have the new Disintermedia and BridgeSeat.nz newsletters hosted there.#HumanRights #FreeSpeech
       
 (DIR) Post #AdgU9Si6OxJFTzNJKa by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2024-01-09T23:10:20Z
       
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       "... several publications left the platform. Others, including Platformer, said they would leave if the company did not remove pro-Nazi publications."#CaseyNewton, 2023https://www.platformer.news/p/substack-says-it-will-remove-naziI chose SubStack as a host precisely because they defend the universal human right to freedom of expression. In the face of increasingly entitled online censorship mobs from both the left and the right.#HumanRights #FreeSpeech
       
 (DIR) Post #AdgUCjSAbkBUHMTxBI by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2024-01-09T23:10:32Z
       
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       As Chomsky put it many years ago, if you only support free expression for speech you agree with, you don't support free expression.
       
 (DIR) Post #AdgUO2G12Fz3mfBe3k by jotaemei@social.coop
       2024-01-09T23:12:58Z
       
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       @strypey She and the heads have been butchering the words democracy and decentralization. The software is centralized in the hands of a small core set of owners, who in turn decide policy amongst themselves. And she does not support democratic decision-making. The main joy she expresses in her article was about how she gets to control everything top-down and only lets people that pony up money to participate.She’s as into democracy as any third rate small business owner is.
       
 (DIR) Post #AdgWyesd77jzu5q5lQ by carl_klitscher@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2024-01-09T23:42:00Z
       
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       @strypey 99% of the time I would agree with you but not on the specific question of supporting or promoting Nazi ideology...That question was decided by our parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and any other family and friends you can think of way back in 1945 after 6 years of appeasement and negotiation and another 6 years of all our war in which 85 MILLION people died...And the answer was, Nazis and their ideology can fuck right off and we do NOT need to discuss it again!
       
 (DIR) Post #AdgdPb9VgHklszxp0y by LouisIngenthron@qoto.org
       2024-01-10T00:54:02Z
       
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       @strypey Substack does get to decide what to offer on their platform, and who to do business with.And the rest of us get to decide if we want to boycott those who choose to profit from Nazis.Both are examples of freedom of expression in action.
       
 (DIR) Post #AdiDYUkQGUJxMgjmQy by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2024-01-10T19:13:40Z
       
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       @jotaemei> The software is centralized in the hands of a small core set of owners, who in turn decide policy amongst themselvesShe didn't say the *software* is decentralised, she said the *moderation* is decentralised. Which it is, compared to the DataFarms they're being pressured to ape the centralised moderation of.
       
 (DIR) Post #AdiDffk7mdUfUd1KFc by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2024-01-10T19:14:58Z
       
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       @jotaemei> she does not support democratic decision-making. The main joy she expresses in her article was about how she gets to control everything top-down... just like most fediverse servers. Yet we're happy to claim that the verse democratises social media.
       
 (DIR) Post #AdiIb46oGPtJNxFnJA by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2024-01-10T20:10:16Z
       
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       @carl_klitscher As Umberto Eco pointed out in his essay on Ur-fascism, there's no such thing as "Nazi ideology". Like all authoritarians, the only political philosophy of fascists is 'might makes right'.They uses whatever language and policy they think large numbers of people will sympathise with. Knowing that once they set up their violent enforcement machinery, they don't have to honour any of it (remember the Night of the Long Knives).Thus SubStack's policy against incitement to violence.
       
 (DIR) Post #AdiJRuycwlTwPXd212 by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2024-01-10T20:19:51Z
       
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       @LouisIngenthronI agree with all of this.Except the inference that SubStack...> choose to profit from NazisThey have a policy against incitement to violence. Anyone who isn't inciting violence isn't a "Nazi" in any truly concerning sense of the word.Focusing on the real problem (violence), rather than on the symptoms (labels and symbols), is a radical approach. One that protects authors on their platform from attempts to stretch the definition of "Nazis" for other censorship purposes.