There are very good reasons why my content has moved to Substack under a Private Membership Agreement. All proceeds will be donated to our nonprofits, just like the profits from my book — there is no financial motivation for doing this. The reasons for doing this will be revealed in due time.

To their credit, Substack CEO Chris Best and his two cofounders have brushed off calls for censorship, saying that allowing "the presence of writers with whom we strongly disagree" is a "necessary precondition for creating more trust in the information ecosystem as a whole,"1 and that:

"We believe that critique and discussion of controversial issues are part of robust discourse, so we work to find a reasonable balance between these two priorities."2

Hit Piece Parade

A recent hit piece by The Washington Post titled "Conspiracy Theorists, Banned on Major Social Networks, Connect with Audiences on Newsletters and Podcasts"3,4 highlights how, after social media platforms have been successfully scrubbed of counternarratives, alternative platforms like Substack are now beginning to face the same kind of scrutiny:

"Joseph Mercola, a leading anti-vaccine advocate whose screeds have been restricted by YouTube and Facebook, this month warned that the unvaccinated might soon be imprisoned in government-run camps. The week before, he circulated a study purporting to use government data to prove that more children had died of COVID-19 shots than from the coronavirus itself.