I did not intend to be vague, nor to smear anyone, I’m just trying to stay on-topic and not derail this comment thread into where it appears your reply has gone.

I encourage you to reach your own conclusions based on the facts; I am not interested in pushing any particular political alignment. The ongoing (and supremely noisy) American culture war is extremely disinteresting to me, I just want people to have the information to make their own decisions and reach their own conclusions.

Perhaps you like the alt-right and learning that information would make you more eager to use Substack, perhaps not. Either way, it’s better that people have more information than less.

If you want hard evidence you'll have to wait for a real claim.

The choices we make, especially about those with whom we enrich via our business and custom and, increasingly, even attention, matter more than most people realize when it comes to shaping the future of our world. It’s one of the few actually-powerful options still retained by most of the general public, increasingly rare in our modern western world.

It’s quite important that we know who we’re dealing with and to whom we pay money. A good example of the result of ignoring this is the fact that the now-largest hosting provider in the world are also the CIA’s sysadmins.

Doing business blindly with vendors is to pass the steering wheel to someone else, and abdicates a critical individual responsibility.

If you find it irrelevant, you’re free to ignore it, but many people (in my estimation) do not, and I believe we all benefit from having better information about markets, whether it results in endorsement or avoidance. Informed decisions are good decisions.