Part 8. Retaliation as a Separate Tort
Reading the Platform — Part 8 of 21. Anderson v. TikTok punched the first hole in the wall of 1996 […]
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Substack mechanics from the inside: algorithm changes, growth without notes, payment infrastructure, the dashboard after a ban. Field reports.
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The armor is fully up — all six parts of Arc I are live
Arc I of Reading Substack is complete — six parts on how a platform makes itself almost impossible to touch in court.
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Part 7. Anderson v. TikTok. The First Hole in the Wall
How Anderson v. TikTok cracked Section 230 — a platform’s algorithm is its own speech — and what that means for Substack bans. Part 7 of Reading Substack.
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Part 6. The Silence of the Terms. Armor from What Isn’t There
Cycle: Lintara Reads the Platform. Part 6 of 28. The fifth armor layer. The last one in this arc. It’s
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Part 5. The Closed Appeals Loop. The Möbius Strip
Cycle: Lintara Reads the Platform. Part 5 of 28. Three armor layers behind us. Immunity from suits. Impossibility of contract
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Part 4. The First Amendment. Free Speech in One Direction
Cycle: Lintara Reads the Platform. Part 4 of 28. Two armor layers down. Section 230 closes the door on the
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Part 3. The Arbitration Clause. One Paragraph That Kills the Lawsuit
Cycle: Lintara Reads the Platform. Part 3 of 28. Section 230 closes the front door. But what if an author
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Part 2. Section 230. The Shield Substack Hides Behind
Cycle: Lintara Reads the Platform. Part 2 of 28. Part 2. Section 230. The Shield Substack Hides Behind There is
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Part 1. Where Substack’s Facade Cracks — Three Bans, One Architecture
Substack banned me three times in fifty days — not for what I wrote, but for explaining how the platform works. A 28-part field study of Substack’s architecture and what protects it. Part one of twenty-eight.
Substack Algorithm Changes January 2026
I’m not complaining. I’m testifying. A reader paid for a yearly subscription to my Substack in November. It was her hand through the screen, real money saying: your text is worth something. Since November, it’s been hanging in the system….