Dave Rahardja on Nostr: nprofile1q…a9lse nprofile1q…5ps99 I find myself disagreeing more and more with ...
nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq6z0cwwtuew4ydwnk6ad0jy6zt9mq6fcupmatny7wuyq0wa6jddtska9lse (nprofile…9lse) nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqswyxvkhew2qcjpgmsf7c4salsxsedx4veavatjd5yzhxhmtk58aqg5ps99 (nprofile…ps99) I find myself disagreeing more and more with Gruber, and I think he’s drifting ever more rightward into techbro and pro-corporate, anti-worker behavior. This paragraph is telling:
“I know a bunch of good, smart people who see Substack like Dash does, and refuse to pay for any publication on Substack’s platform because of their “Hey we’re just a neutral publishing platform, not an editor, let alone a censor” stance. What I can say, personally, is that I read and pay for several publications on Substack, and for the last few weeks I’ve tried using their iOS app (more on this in a moment), and I’ve never once seen a whiff of anything even vaguely right-wing, let alone hateful. Not a whiff. If it’s there, I never see it. If I never see it, I don’t care.”
He’s echoing that tired old Libertarian (i.e. selfish) adage “If I don’t see a problem on the platform, then there is by definition no problem” stance, which is privileged as hell.
“I know a bunch of good, smart people who see Substack like Dash does, and refuse to pay for any publication on Substack’s platform because of their “Hey we’re just a neutral publishing platform, not an editor, let alone a censor” stance. What I can say, personally, is that I read and pay for several publications on Substack, and for the last few weeks I’ve tried using their iOS app (more on this in a moment), and I’ve never once seen a whiff of anything even vaguely right-wing, let alone hateful. Not a whiff. If it’s there, I never see it. If I never see it, I don’t care.”
He’s echoing that tired old Libertarian (i.e. selfish) adage “If I don’t see a problem on the platform, then there is by definition no problem” stance, which is privileged as hell.