The publishers that most writers adore would never profit from white supremacy, yet they are fine with a middleman, no different than airbnb and Uber, that has no publishing standards because self-publishing on a blog or something similar is some antiquated symbol of failure in the modern literary mind.
- they monetize neo-Nazis and are proudly doing so
- they ban a lot of legal speech, including advocating eating disorders and erotic content
- one of the founders recently hosted unrepentant eugenicist Richard Hanania on his podcast
- similar to the situation with Twitter, this is a private company that has a right to moderate their content as they see fit, and no one is asking for government intervention -- just a boycott
The evidence suggests that they're monetizing neo-Nazi content not because of a commitment to free speech or even because of greed, but because they agree with it. If they believed in free speech, they wouldn't ban content about eating disorders, and if they were greedy, they'd certainly have a lot of porn on the platform.
This kind of what-content-is-allowed drama doesn’t exist when everyone just has their own self-hosted blog.
