I don’t think I’ve ever read anything on Platformer. If you haven’t either, it’s a tech news site based on Substack, at least it was until today. Now Platformer’s founder Casey Newton, has announce it is deplatforming itself and moving somewhere else. Why? Because of the Nazis.
In November, when Jonathan M. Katz published his article in The Atlantic about Nazis using Substack, it did not strike me as cause to immediately leave Substack. All platforms host problematic and harmful material; I assumed Substack would remove praise for Nazis under its existing policy that “Substack cannot be used to publish content or fund initiatives that incite violence based on protected classes.”
And so, after reading the open letter from 247 writers on the platform calling for clarity on the issue, I waited for a response.
The response, from Substack co-founder Hamish…
