The response came weeks after The Atlantic found that at least 16 Substack newsletters had "overt Nazi symbols" in their logos or graphics, and that white supremacists had been allowed to publish on, and profit from, the platform.
speech and racist speech what they do for child porn and child-related crimes. i think some of them would say, well, child pornography by its nature is illegal, unlawful already. it s not protected by the first amendment. they would say that foreign terrorist organizations don t receive first amendment protection, although i will footnote here that the number of isis-related accounts on twitter has also skyrocketed since musk s takeover. but i think many social media companies would say, okay, these things, we can deal with because they re clearly not protected. but some of this other more extremist speech is protected, and even though we re not necessarily bound by the first amendment, because we re a private company, we want to respect sort of the principles and fundamental reasons for first amendment for the freedom of speech, and so they re very reluctant to take that kind of material down. now, i ll say another thing, though, my more pessimistic hat. some of that is also politic
really why they are there. the reason they are there is to talk politics and to convey hate speech and to incite violence and things like that. the more incendiary my speech, the more money i m going to make. you can kind of dial up and down the rhetoric, and earn money, i m talking easily six figures by many of the creators that i looked at, so i m thinking of probably ten of them in particular earning more than $50,000 a year, some of them more than $10,000 a month. megan s research on this world of extremist streamers centred on us based dlive, who say that they have stopped the monetisation of extremist speech, but the practice isn t restricted to one platform or one region. we approached the companies about what they are doing to deal with extremist content. some of the games featured here were removed after we contacted them and others have been taken down after being on the platform for a while, but the bigger issue still remains, and the responses that we did receive are all ve
the more incendiary my speech, the more money i m going to make. you can kind of dial up and down the rhetoric, and earn money, i m talking easily six figures by many of the creators that i looked at, so i m thinking of probably ten of them in particular earning more than $50,000 a year, some of them more than $10,000 a month. megan s research on this world of extremist streamers centred on us based dlive, who say that they have stopped the monetisation of extremist speech, but the practice isn t restricted to one platform or one region. we approached the companies about what they are doing to deal with extremist content. some of the games featured here were removed after we contacted them and others have been taken down after being on the platform for a while, but the bigger issue still remains, and the responses that we did receive are all very similar. they all reiterated that they have zero tolerance policies against hate and violent extremism of any kind and they all proactively
about probably ten of them in particular earning more than $50,000 a year, some of them more than $10,000 a month. megan s research on this world of extremist streamers centred on us based dlive, who say that they have stopped the monetisation of extremist speech, but the practice isn t restricted to one platform or one region. we approached the companies about what they are doing to deal with extremist content. some of the games featured here were removed after we contacted them and others have been taken down after being on the platform for a while, but the bigger issue still remains, and the responses that we did receive are all very similar. they all reiterated that they have zero tolerance policies against hate and violent extremism of any kind, and they all proactively try to find and remove any content that violates their community guidelines. so gaming and gaming platforms are being used by certain far right groups to make money, exert influence and build community, but the b