I think the answer is clear: once censorship begins, it does not end. And it always beings with something that "seems reasonable" and that "most people would agree should be banned."
Substack has been THE one platform that has not censored me, or you, or any of my friends. Personally, I would rather live in a world where we put up with views we do not like, and also get to be who we are and say what we mean. We need to go back to the old true Liberal concept of I may not agree with what you say but I will defend your right to say it.
Who is a Nazi? I am a Holocaust documenter; have taught Holocaust Studies. I have traveled to the scene of many things I am glad I did not live through. My parents are both remarried to Jews. Many, many, many of my best friends are Jews. And — I've recently been compared to a Holocaust denier and called anti-Semitic because I insist on making up my own mind about what is happening in Gaza.
Hi Eric. I think if you go to the posts and accounts discussed in the letter, you'll see that open, proud white nationalism and declarations of adherence to Nazism, including Holocaust-denial are present. Who is a Nazi? People who say "I am a Nazi."
We, as users of this platform, have just as much of a right to say that we don't want them here as they have a right to free (disgusting and vile) speech in this country. But we can do whatever we can to push them off this for-profit platform -- which is *not* a public square, it's a privately owned company. I defend the right of the most repugnant people on earth to speak freely in public spaces in the US because that is the law, and stopping that is censorship. But this in no way meets the legal, first amendment definition of censorship, and the far right has continually tried to conflate these two issues. Therefore, I will do whatever is in my power to shut down people who literally want me and my family dead.
I think the answer is clear: once censorship begins, it does not end. And it always beings with something that "seems reasonable" and that "most people would agree should be banned."
Substack has been THE one platform that has not censored me, or you, or any of my friends. Personally, I would rather live in a world where we put up with views we do not like, and also get to be who we are and say what we mean. We need to go back to the old true Liberal concept of I may not agree with what you say but I will defend your right to say it.
Who is a Nazi? I am a Holocaust documenter; have taught Holocaust Studies. I have traveled to the scene of many things I am glad I did not live through. My parents are both remarried to Jews. Many, many, many of my best friends are Jews. And — I've recently been compared to a Holocaust denier and called anti-Semitic because I insist on making up my own mind about what is happening in Gaza.
Hi Eric. I think if you go to the posts and accounts discussed in the letter, you'll see that open, proud white nationalism and declarations of adherence to Nazism, including Holocaust-denial are present. Who is a Nazi? People who say "I am a Nazi."
We, as users of this platform, have just as much of a right to say that we don't want them here as they have a right to free (disgusting and vile) speech in this country. But we can do whatever we can to push them off this for-profit platform -- which is *not* a public square, it's a privately owned company. I defend the right of the most repugnant people on earth to speak freely in public spaces in the US because that is the law, and stopping that is censorship. But this in no way meets the legal, first amendment definition of censorship, and the far right has continually tried to conflate these two issues. Therefore, I will do whatever is in my power to shut down people who literally want me and my family dead.