Steve, you've had lots of fair warning. Chris Fox & I have talked about how we got taken down and I told y'all about my convo with Tony Stubblefield a few months ago...I wrote him a polite email asking if they're allowing conversation about trans (I forget how exactly I put it) and he replied that transphobia had no place on Medium. So y…
Steve, you've had lots of fair warning. Chris Fox & I have talked about how we got taken down and I told y'all about my convo with Tony Stubblefield a few months ago...I wrote him a polite email asking if they're allowing conversation about trans (I forget how exactly I put it) and he replied that transphobia had no place on Medium. So you should know by now that they're cracking down on free speech, unless it's woke enough. This should only be a semi-surprise. I saw the handwriting on the way when my second article got suspended which was when I moved to Substack, and also copied over what I thought were my best Medium articles (maybe half of what I published) on my Wix blog. Wix won't take me down unless I threaten to shoot someone or something. They, Wordpress and others are just hosters. I'm sure they have their limits. Not sure what would happen if NAMBLA tried to up a Wordpress website....
Actually, WordPress.com accounts are the WordPress CMS combined with hosting. Very limited customizations and plugins - compared to installing it yourself on an independent hosting account. Most WordPress sites are hosted on independent hosting providers. Content rules vary among hosting providers.
My hosting provider of choice for my clients (I'm a graphic designer, web dev) is Scala Hosting. They don't allow porn, torrents, proxies, download oriented sites, irc, hacking tools. I couldn't find anything on what types of content they allow. I don't think they have a content policy, per se. It's pretty simple to go independent if you are technical.
I don't think they do either, although I never tested it. Transgenderism is the real litmus test for woke censorship - you can get deplatformed & censored for other anti-woke sentiments but AFAIK it's by far mostly common for gender ideology critics. I was on WordPress for ten years and transgenderism wasn't even on my radar. I left because it's a pain in the ass to use, I've been on Wix for the last 2-3 years and it's much easier. So far, no problems with my gender-critical articles.
Many call WordPress a community, I don't know if I would call it that. Maybe I missed the community part. I consider it more of a content hosting platform and my experience with them for about 25 years is that they don't do censorship. Wix & WordPress & others don't get caught up in woke censorship scandals AFAIK. You pay them to host your website/blog and it's to their best interests to not bump you off until you offer kiddie porn, hack, express virulent racist opinions (probably beyond your typical MAGA crap) or threaten to kill the President. I remember NAMBLA was challenged back in the '90s finding someone to host them when they got kicked off whatever platform they were on due to community pressure.
Anyway, hosting sites are one thing, being able to promote your content is quite another, which is why we may find online neighbours we don't have much in common with politically if we join them. Still looking to explore Rumble, the right-wing alternative to YouTube now being infiltrated by non-woke lefties kicked off by fanatics.
Never really understood why Medium kicked off paying members for expressing seriously non-phobic opinions they don't like, when at the time Ev Williams was allegedly paying for Medium out of pocket.
Vocal kicking me off I get - I'd recently gone back to a free subscription so it was no skin off either of our noses for them to do it. I was already on the verge of leaving it anyway, it wasn't a great platform for me, so it was probably no-brainer for them.
Except they get a mention in my article. I'm sure they'll change the policy after it goes viral, lol
Steve, you've had lots of fair warning. Chris Fox & I have talked about how we got taken down and I told y'all about my convo with Tony Stubblefield a few months ago...I wrote him a polite email asking if they're allowing conversation about trans (I forget how exactly I put it) and he replied that transphobia had no place on Medium. So you should know by now that they're cracking down on free speech, unless it's woke enough. This should only be a semi-surprise. I saw the handwriting on the way when my second article got suspended which was when I moved to Substack, and also copied over what I thought were my best Medium articles (maybe half of what I published) on my Wix blog. Wix won't take me down unless I threaten to shoot someone or something. They, Wordpress and others are just hosters. I'm sure they have their limits. Not sure what would happen if NAMBLA tried to up a Wordpress website....
Actually, WordPress.com accounts are the WordPress CMS combined with hosting. Very limited customizations and plugins - compared to installing it yourself on an independent hosting account. Most WordPress sites are hosted on independent hosting providers. Content rules vary among hosting providers.
My hosting provider of choice for my clients (I'm a graphic designer, web dev) is Scala Hosting. They don't allow porn, torrents, proxies, download oriented sites, irc, hacking tools. I couldn't find anything on what types of content they allow. I don't think they have a content policy, per se. It's pretty simple to go independent if you are technical.
I don't think they do either, although I never tested it. Transgenderism is the real litmus test for woke censorship - you can get deplatformed & censored for other anti-woke sentiments but AFAIK it's by far mostly common for gender ideology critics. I was on WordPress for ten years and transgenderism wasn't even on my radar. I left because it's a pain in the ass to use, I've been on Wix for the last 2-3 years and it's much easier. So far, no problems with my gender-critical articles.
That's a relief. WordPress is definitely geared toward developers like myself and it's logic is non-intuitive.
Anyway, just pointing out there are alternatives for Steve if he wants to leave Medium and set up his own website.
Many call WordPress a community, I don't know if I would call it that. Maybe I missed the community part. I consider it more of a content hosting platform and my experience with them for about 25 years is that they don't do censorship. Wix & WordPress & others don't get caught up in woke censorship scandals AFAIK. You pay them to host your website/blog and it's to their best interests to not bump you off until you offer kiddie porn, hack, express virulent racist opinions (probably beyond your typical MAGA crap) or threaten to kill the President. I remember NAMBLA was challenged back in the '90s finding someone to host them when they got kicked off whatever platform they were on due to community pressure.
Anyway, hosting sites are one thing, being able to promote your content is quite another, which is why we may find online neighbours we don't have much in common with politically if we join them. Still looking to explore Rumble, the right-wing alternative to YouTube now being infiltrated by non-woke lefties kicked off by fanatics.
Never really understood why Medium kicked off paying members for expressing seriously non-phobic opinions they don't like, when at the time Ev Williams was allegedly paying for Medium out of pocket.
Vocal kicking me off I get - I'd recently gone back to a free subscription so it was no skin off either of our noses for them to do it. I was already on the verge of leaving it anyway, it wasn't a great platform for me, so it was probably no-brainer for them.
Except they get a mention in my article. I'm sure they'll change the policy after it goes viral, lol