Quoting Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg: "I've moved Life is a Sacred Text 🌱 out of Substack.
There’s a lot to say, but it can functionally be summarized as: Their increasing tolerance of white-supremacist, neo-Confederate, and explicitly Nazi newsletters, and their co-founder Hamish McKenzie’s choice to respond to a mass letter by Substack writers by saying that he’s happy to profit off of them and refuses to enforce his Terms of Service is my breaking point. I’ve moved to the nonprofit Ghost1."
I love your work and will continue to subscribe but I thought you should know about this if you don't already.
Substack has a few problems:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/substack-extremism-nazi-white-supremacy-newsletters/676156/?ref=lifeisasacredtext.com
https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/21/24011232/substack-nazi-moderation-demonetization-hamish-mckenzie?ref=lifeisasacredtext.com
Quoting Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg: "I've moved Life is a Sacred Text 🌱 out of Substack.
There’s a lot to say, but it can functionally be summarized as: Their increasing tolerance of white-supremacist, neo-Confederate, and explicitly Nazi newsletters, and their co-founder Hamish McKenzie’s choice to respond to a mass letter by Substack writers by saying that he’s happy to profit off of them and refuses to enforce his Terms of Service is my breaking point. I’ve moved to the nonprofit Ghost1."