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Platformer<\/em>, the tech newsletter started by Verge<\/em> alum Casey Newton, is leaving Substack<\/a> over its policies around and response to pro-Nazi publications using the platform. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Newton notes that after identifying seven Substack publications \u201cthat conveyed explicit support for 1930s German Nazis and called for violence against Jews, among other groups,\u201d the platform removed one on its own along with five others on the list<\/a>. The other thing that happened was that the platform\u2019s co-founders asked to keep their conversations off the record and then leaked those conversations to another publication. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n The issue has been building up over the past several weeks. After The Atlantic<\/em><\/a> published an article saying that Substack had been hosting and profiting from pro-Nazi publications, more than 200 Substack writers wrote an open letter<\/a> to the company asking it to clarify its position. On December 21st, Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie said it would not remove or demonetize Nazi content<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cThis was the moment where I started to think Platformer<\/em> would need to leave Substack,\u201d Newton writes. \u201cI\u2019m not aware of any major US consumer internet platform that does not explicitly ban praise for Nazi hate speech, much less one that welcomes them to set up shop and start selling subscriptions.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n After soliciting responses from the Platformer<\/em> community, Newton says that readers have been clear that the publication should leave Substack. Platformer<\/em> is migrating to Ghost, and Newton says you won\u2019t have to do anything to continue receiving the publication. \u201cIf all goes well, following the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on Monday, you\u2019ll receive the Tuesday edition of\u00a0Platformer<\/em>\u00a0as normal,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n