If you would like to join me in thanking Substack founders Hamish McKenzie, Chris Best, and Jairaj Sethi for resolutely defending free speech against the censorship bullies, please add your signature below.
Their principled position has cost them financially given the departure of major Substackers such as Jonathan Katz and Casey Newton. Let’s show them we appreciate their refusal to compromise what makes Substack stand out from the cowardly and complicit platforms that have caved to the crybullies and even colluded with government to violate the free speech rights of individuals. And let’s encourage others to join Substack to more than offset the losses they have experienced.
THANK YOU, SUBSTACK, for choosing freedom over fear! 🙏💪🙌
I was going to thank you passionately for what you shared in today's blog, Margaret Anna...where do I "sign"?? It is truly horrific what is happening in our once great country. Once the "thought police" are firmly entrenched it will take an Act of Divine Wrath to upend them.
My ridiculous drone of a “science teacher” sister has been on this bandwagon for awhile. “We have to do something about all of this misinformation”. Yet she wants to know nothing about the Covid scam and says it’s time to move on. Even though she sees the carnage around her and must be realizing that I was on to something all along.
I can definitely say I'm impressed. It does take courage to run a large platform, a company, and try to hold true to important principles that are unfortunately being abandoned all too quickly in the mainstream.
Substack definitely has a fascinating collection of voices that you won't find elsewhere, it's not for everyone but I'm glad it is the way it is.
I am very thankful to the Substack Founders....it takes cojones to stand up to the tyranny we are under now. Never thought in a million years that we would be living through these unprecedented times. Thanks for your Substack as well Alice. You are a beacon of hope!
With freedom comes responsibility. They are inextricably connected...one cannot have authentic, meaningful freedom without learning the consequences of his or her actions, and one cannot learn responsibility without freedom.
I believe that the fear of freedom, or the rejection of freedom, comes from a fear of responsibility. It is a lot easier to excuse one's decisions and actions by thinking and saying "I was told to do this", or "I was told not to do that". This is what children do, and it is what immature populations seek to perpetuate.
Listen carefully to the words people use, which reveal their state of mind. Most people talk about electing a "leader" in government rather than a representative or public servant.
They want to be led, to be told what to feel, think and do, and when, and how (and conversely what not to think, say and do). This way they do not need to be responsible for anything at all.
This is why there are so many docile, obedient sheep in the world, who want to remain as children and look to be "protected" and controlled by mommy or daddy government.
Thank you Substack! And thank you Margaret Ann. Being enamored with history, I love the pertinent use of quotes from the long past. Further, the analogy about expunging communists is something many people need to see to get the sand out of their eyes. Bravo.
I do consider these Oliver Darcy-types who make it their life's mission to cleanse the Internet of everyone they disagree with to be one of the lowest forms of humanity out there.
Thank you a thousand-fold. Hamish McKenzie, Chris Best, and Jairaj Sethi are the modern day equivalent of the 18th century printers who braved the opprobrium and threats of the established order to put the arguments of the revolutionary pamphleteers into the hands of both American colonists and Englishmen. We remember the names of Thomas Paine, John Dickenson, Stephen Hopkins, James Otis...but we don't remember the names of the men who set the type, pressed the ink to the paper, and sent the pamphlets out into the world. I hope we do better this time around.
If you would like to join me in thanking Substack founders Hamish McKenzie, Chris Best, and Jairaj Sethi for resolutely defending free speech against the censorship bullies, please add your signature below.
Their principled position has cost them financially given the departure of major Substackers such as Jonathan Katz and Casey Newton. Let’s show them we appreciate their refusal to compromise what makes Substack stand out from the cowardly and complicit platforms that have caved to the crybullies and even colluded with government to violate the free speech rights of individuals. And let’s encourage others to join Substack to more than offset the losses they have experienced.
THANK YOU, SUBSTACK, for choosing freedom over fear! 🙏💪🙌
I was going to thank you passionately for what you shared in today's blog, Margaret Anna...where do I "sign"?? It is truly horrific what is happening in our once great country. Once the "thought police" are firmly entrenched it will take an Act of Divine Wrath to upend them.
FIGHT ON, courageous Warrior Person!!
My ridiculous drone of a “science teacher” sister has been on this bandwagon for awhile. “We have to do something about all of this misinformation”. Yet she wants to know nothing about the Covid scam and says it’s time to move on. Even though she sees the carnage around her and must be realizing that I was on to something all along.
I can definitely say I'm impressed. It does take courage to run a large platform, a company, and try to hold true to important principles that are unfortunately being abandoned all too quickly in the mainstream.
Substack definitely has a fascinating collection of voices that you won't find elsewhere, it's not for everyone but I'm glad it is the way it is.
Thank you Substack.
Thank you Margaret Anna Alice.
The world is a much better place with you and your tireless work exposing the execrable.
I am very thankful to the Substack Founders....it takes cojones to stand up to the tyranny we are under now. Never thought in a million years that we would be living through these unprecedented times. Thanks for your Substack as well Alice. You are a beacon of hope!
With freedom comes responsibility. They are inextricably connected...one cannot have authentic, meaningful freedom without learning the consequences of his or her actions, and one cannot learn responsibility without freedom.
I believe that the fear of freedom, or the rejection of freedom, comes from a fear of responsibility. It is a lot easier to excuse one's decisions and actions by thinking and saying "I was told to do this", or "I was told not to do that". This is what children do, and it is what immature populations seek to perpetuate.
Listen carefully to the words people use, which reveal their state of mind. Most people talk about electing a "leader" in government rather than a representative or public servant.
They want to be led, to be told what to feel, think and do, and when, and how (and conversely what not to think, say and do). This way they do not need to be responsible for anything at all.
This is why there are so many docile, obedient sheep in the world, who want to remain as children and look to be "protected" and controlled by mommy or daddy government.
Thank you Substack!! One of the few places I go online anymore! Thanks to you as well MAA!!!
Thanks, MAA!
Singed and appreciative for substack taking a stand. Best to you.
Signed. Nice knight and I’m leaving substack unless they censor memes ;)
Thank you Substack and thank you MAA !!
Thank you Substack! And thank you Margaret Ann. Being enamored with history, I love the pertinent use of quotes from the long past. Further, the analogy about expunging communists is something many people need to see to get the sand out of their eyes. Bravo.
I do consider these Oliver Darcy-types who make it their life's mission to cleanse the Internet of everyone they disagree with to be one of the lowest forms of humanity out there.
Thank you Substack for resisting censorship!
Thank you, your strength, compassion and intellect will continue to encourage more people to PAY IT FORWARD.
Thank you a thousand-fold. Hamish McKenzie, Chris Best, and Jairaj Sethi are the modern day equivalent of the 18th century printers who braved the opprobrium and threats of the established order to put the arguments of the revolutionary pamphleteers into the hands of both American colonists and Englishmen. We remember the names of Thomas Paine, John Dickenson, Stephen Hopkins, James Otis...but we don't remember the names of the men who set the type, pressed the ink to the paper, and sent the pamphlets out into the world. I hope we do better this time around.