Neofascism: In my view, SubStack gets into real trouble when—as it does—it shifts from giving neofascists a platform to promoting neofascists: Look at all the neofascists you can read on SubStack! Let me recommend some more of them to you! It’s an ethos, or at least a business model:

Ken White: Substack Has A Nazi Opportunity <substack.com/home/post/p-139893879>: ‘Dealing With Nazis, Or Not, Can Be A Brand. Substack’s Monetizing It…. I [do not] have to accept Substack’s attempt to convince me that its branding is about the good of humanity. It’s about money…. Substack is engaging in transparent puffery when it brands itself as permitting offensive speech because the best way to handle offensive speech is to put it all out there to discuss. It’s simply not true. Substack has made a series of value judgments about which speech to permit and which speech not to permit…. The suggestion that Hanania was not an overt racist before his pseudonymous background was published is an argument, nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/08/richard……. I dislike McKenzie’s apologia for Substack’s policy and for Richard Hanania because it has a sort of detached, sociopathic philosophy popular with techbrahs that all differences of opinion are equal — that a dispute over whether black people are human is like a dispute over the best programming language or whether Rocky Road is the best ice cream. This, too, is a value judgment. It’s not one I share…