{"id":13363,"date":"2026-02-08T09:06:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T09:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/?p=13363"},"modified":"2026-02-08T09:06:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T09:06:43","slug":"13363","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2026\/02\/08\/13363\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:6983,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.theguardian.com\\\/media\\\/2026\\\/feb\\\/07\\\/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi-newsletters&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf0 I love that The Guardian has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2026\/feb\/07\/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi-newsletters\" title=\"The Guardian: Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters\">this<\/a> as their main story on their homepage. There are so many newsletters that I would pay to subscribe to, if they weren\u2019t hosted on Substack. The intent of the USA\u2019s Section 230 was to allow them to refuse to host content like this. It\u2019s a choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1177\" height=\"1842\" src=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/DraggedImage-2.jpeg\" class=\"wp-image-13362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/DraggedImage-2.jpeg 1177w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/DraggedImage-2-192x300.jpeg 192w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/DraggedImage-2-654x1024.jpeg 654w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/DraggedImage-2-768x1202.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/DraggedImage-2-981x1536.jpeg 981w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/DraggedImage-2-447x700.jpeg 447w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1177px) 100vw, 1177px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2026\/02\/08\/13363\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to \"><div class='e-content p-summary'>\ud83d\udcf0 I love that The Guardian has this as their main story on their homepage. There are so many newsletters that I would pay to subscribe to, if they weren\u2019t hosted on Substack. The intent of the USA\u2019s Section 230 was to allow them to refuse to host content like this. It\u2019s a choice.<\/div>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-status","6":"category-snippets","7":"post_format-post-format-status","8":"h-entry","10":"hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3890,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2018\/01\/17\/new-host\/","url_meta":{"origin":13363,"position":0},"title":"New host","author":"Andrew Doran","date":"17 January 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"What started with a Troy Hunt-inspired investigation into how I can enforce HTTPS on my Bitnami\/AWS-hosted personal website turned into a full-on migration over to a new hosted web provider. 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