Year of Troubles: The Hatchets Come Out for Substack and Simplicius | " A middling platform by the standards of market capitalization and total users can’t possibly be such a ‘dangerous’ bugbear to the elites, can it? ... Do Matt Taibbi, Alex Berenson, Seymour Hersh, and many others ring a bell?"

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[–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Someone in the comments recommended this platform:

You should reach out to Vox day. He is a fellow dissent and a fan of your work. He created the unauthorized.tv platform which allows for subscriptions and they have found away around being canceled on the payment side.

The catalog shows some of the content creators and their content.

[–]stickdog[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks.

[–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

A commenter pointed to this Jun 2022 US Helsinki Commission video:

I'd guess the big sin is arguing, correctly, that Russia is fighting a defensive war in the Ukraine. For God's sake, when NATO leaders call for regime change in Russia they mean the destruction of the Russian Federation - and that goal was worth someone else fighting a war. (Just for kicks check the YouTube Channel of the US State Department funded Helsinki Commission - one of their last conferences was entitled "Decolonizing the Russian Federation: A Strategic and Moral Imperative." Wonder how Biden would like it if Sergi Lavrov called for succession of half of the American states? I might think that's a fine idea, but Lavrov saying it would be different.)

[–]FThumbStay thirsty, my friends 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

a critical mass of high-profile leftist Substackers immediately leapt to the podium to announce their withdrawals from the platform

"When did this sub.... I'm leaving! Who's with me??"

Almost all of my favorite writers are on substack.

[–]yaiyen 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I have a feeling these people who went on the platform, their whole plan was to take people from the platform from the beginning. These guys can be so fucking sneaky

[–]kingsmegLiberté, égalité, fraternité 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

He sounded worried, he quit his day job to concentrate on his Substack gig, and now of course the deep state is coming to shut him down. Remains to be seen if he takes a more pro-establishment slant now to preserve his income stream, which was of course the purpose of rattling his cage a little.

[–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Sounds like he's going to put some of his content behind a paywall:

I mentioned that it was also about restricting content that was too ‘sensitive’. This means any topic that may attract the mass-reporters like flies and be a lightning rod for “accusations” will serve better being put behind a paywall. This limits bad actors accessing it in order to use it against me in some way.

The biggest issue is the lack of payment alternatives because Substack "is locked into an exclusivity deal in the same way all the tech monopolies today force everyone into their digital ‘walled gardens’."

[–]kingsmegLiberté, égalité, fraternité 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Only the 1 article so far, everything else has been viewable by the wider public. The only perk of subscribing before was the ability to have him answer questions in his periodic mailbag.

Obviously they know going back to wikileaks that blocking the common payment systems will starve him of revenue, even if some alternatives still remain. And he wrote in public about dropping his day job to try to make a living with his writing, so they knew he was vulnerable to just this.