Just as the current epidemic of online censorship began with the age-old tactic of targeting someone widely disliked (Milo, then Alex Jones), these censors are trying to create a censorship precedent for Substack by forcing them to boot one bad writer, then expand from there:
https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1375078276444590088
That's the tactic of state and non-state censors always:
Let's find the first target that everyone hates so nobody cares when they're silenced. Then we'll have instituted this power and then we can use it far more widely.
You have to fight it in all instances, from the start.
Let's find the first target that everyone hates so nobody cares when they're silenced. Then we'll have instituted this power and then we can use it far more widely.
You have to fight it in all instances, from the start.
These people are so fucking broken. It's not enough for them to refuse to read a site or refuse to write there, which is totally within their rights.
They can't stand that there's any venue they can't control, where people are free to speak. They're little petty wannabe despots.
They can't stand that there's any venue they can't control, where people are free to speak. They're little petty wannabe despots.
You can watch them formulate their tyrannical little plot in real-time: to contaminate Substack with their censorship pathology by pretending it's just about one writer. That's how they seize control: after that, every writer will be subject to their repressive campaigns: 
When Silicon Valley united to de-person Milo and then Alex Jones, some objected -- obviously not on the ground that they like those people, but on the ground that it will rapidly expand inward.
Just 3 years later, left-wing and right-wing voices and sites are banned *daily.*
Just 3 years later, left-wing and right-wing voices and sites are banned *daily.*
Just curious: Why did @ParkerMolloy accuse
@annehelen of supporting a "bigotry factory" and demand she boycott it, but not direct those same accusations/demands to @rgay, who has a hugely successful Substack page? This censorship campaign seems, as usual, oddly selective.
@annehelen of supporting a "bigotry factory" and demand she boycott it, but not direct those same accusations/demands to @rgay, who has a hugely successful Substack page? This censorship campaign seems, as usual, oddly selective.
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