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Brad this is off topic but any truth to the following?

Beware of Substack

One of the biggest dangers to potential online tracking that I have seen develop this past year is in the sheer amount of content providers in the Alternative Media who have moved their content over to the Substack.com platform.

Like Twitter, which is trying to lure Conservatives and Alternative Health publishers back onto its platform, probably with the goal of monitoring and tracking everyone who follows them, so too could the Technocrats who run Substack be doing in the same thing.

Substack.com is a convenient way for authors and publishers to manage and monetize their content.

But at what cost?

Elizabeth Dwoskin, writing for the Washington Post, complained at the beginning of the year that Substack was earning $millions from “anti-vaccine content” that was banned on the big Social Media sites, such as Twitter and Facebook, and moving over to Substack.

There are huge Silicon Valley Big Tech investors behind Substack, however, including some of the same investors behind Big Tech Social Media sites.

Venture Capitalist Andreessen Horowitz allegedly provided $15.3 million in Series A funding for Substack in 2019. (Source.)

In 2011, Andreessen Horowitz allegedly invested $80 million in Twitter, becoming the first venture capital firm that held stock in all four of the highest-valued, privately held social media companies at the time: Facebook, Groupon, Twitter, and Zynga. (Source.)

When Elon Musk stepped up to the plate to purchase Twitter earlier this year, Andreessen Horowitz provided another $400 million as one of the co-owners of Twitter. (Source.)

I have tried subscribing to a few Substack authors, and when their newsletter is delivered to you via email, all the links in the email are appended with Google tracking codes. So I know, at the very least, that Substack is making data available to Google.

Here is a list of personal data that Substack admits to collecting:

What Information does Substack collect?

We collect and process Personal Information about you when you interact with us and our services, as well as when you subscribe to any of our paid or unpaid services. This may include:

your first and last name;

your email address;

your phone number;

your payment details (including billing address, credit card details, where you make a purchase from us);

your location and/or mailing address;

your photograph;

your marketing preferences, including any consents you have given us;

information related to the browser or device you use to access our website (including your IP address);

any information we collect online from you and maintain in association with your account, such as your username and password;

your subscription status with Substack newsletters;

any other information you provide us when communicating with us.

We also collect information on the use of our website via Cookies. (Source.)

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I encourage everyone to petition for a Ministry like this Brad, I also suggest this after reading your article I did some searching as a video I saw some years ago celebrated by a Chinese. This chinese vlogger was so happy that Richmond B.C., was predominantly Chinese. I encourage everyone here to go to mls.ca, look up Richmond. B.C. ...look for a home. Every listing is owned by a Chinese, what is more these homes are millions upon millions. What happened to the WASP/European people there, did they give up? It

is a horrifying reality that part of Canada is owned by the CCP, these Chinese did not just pop up here and make millions in Canada, their money is from their own country. The reality should be reported, and this is why the media was so forth right in labelling 'Asian hate'....you see when you label a person a 'racist'...funny things happen...your truth irritates the liars. But the reality is Richmond B.C...is a province of China.

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Dec 29, 2022Liked by Brad Salzberg

A right to fund our own demise.

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This government wants to take everything we own from us, our Religions, our EVERYTHING, kill us off any way they can, no rights no freedoms and they want to stop our rights to a peaceful protest to stop them from doing this to us and now they are trying to take that away as well. This government needs to go! God give us all a better 2023 please.

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Dec 29, 2022·edited Dec 29, 2022

I honestly cannot understand how he doesn’t see through all the crap. He is near my age so how can he be so brainwashed? I keep wondering why he did not go down a more honest path. While his ppl suffered he went to Jamaica? If I was a leader I could not even celebrate Christmas if I didn’t do my part in feeding homeless, setting up crisis centers, making sure all Canadians were safe and sheltered. I could never jet off like he did and leave country half a$$ and sleep at night. He is not a leader. He could have been, but he is not. I live in Quebec. So far the only changes I noticed are any govt papers I get in the mail are all french, not bilingual anymore. And my Youtube feed and channel are bombarded with French ads only- despite I watch English content! I can’t get rid of it. They are going after Youtube next to monitor free speech and jornalism.

By the way, he wants to make it all electric vehicles by 2030 in Canada? They fail miserably. No charging stations work when its -30C. And you can stay stranded in a storm. I will never get all electric never. He is a lunatic for putting Canada in this path of change. NO.

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His ancestry is more Anglo than French! A master of pretend!!!

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Trudeau’s heritage is more Anglophone than Francophone and yet he slaps down HIS ‘real’ people?!?! Not that I would welcome him with open arms but obviously he is prejudicial in his choices. Is it M or F, cat or dog???? Who knows in ‘his’ weird world!!!

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A right to pay higher taxes that others profit with. A right to remain silent and not protest. A right to allow govt to flood Canada with foreigners. A right to be displaced in your own country. A right to take the blame for all past wrongs. A right to use MAID to escape the madness.

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Absolutely. Otherwise we are done for!

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