Medium’s New “Member Content Guidelines” Are a TOTAL AND UTTER JOKE

As I’ve demonstrated in an extended discussion of Medium and Medium Staff’s systematic and long-standing political bias, there is no way the bunch of amateurish political hacks that Medium employs can be trusted to make the vague determination of when someone is “advocat[ing] or promot[ing] intolerance or prejudice against individuals or groups, including the use of scientific or pseudo-scientific claims to pathologize, dehumanize or disempower others” or to decide when an article is one that tends to “glorify, celebrate, downplay, or trivialize violence, suffering, abuse, or deaths.” As I showed very clearly in that article, Medium’s staff proved too cowardly and hypocritical to abide by their own clear rules and take down a post that openly and plainly called for punching white cops, even as that same staff, without explanation, abruptly banned a conservative writer, James Massey, who’d parodied one of the most anti-white racist screeds I’d ever seen on Medium by reversing the races to make it clear how racist the piece was and then adding several paragraphs of explanation to explain exactly what he was doing. (I discuss the details of that in the article I linked to, and I invite anyone who’s reading to check that out to see I’m not making this up, and to understand how biased Medium has been for some time now.)

These new rules for “Members Only” content are even more open-ended, and I have no doubt, based on what we’ve seen, that Medium Staff will be enforcing them very, very selectively to favor the kind of intolerance (towards both groups and opposing viewpoints) that is routinely present on the left and that is all over Medium but disfavor the kind of intolerance that is more often present on the right. Any attempt by conservative (or even real liberal) writers to combat intolerant identity-politics-based screeds that demonize white people, men, Christians, heterosexuals, the cis-gendered, high achievers, or any other group these radicalized nutjobs resent or think is too powerful will surely be characterized as “advocating or promoting intolerance or prejudice.” I also love the ban on both pseudo-scientific and scientific claims “to pathologize, dehumanize, or disempower others.” It’s like, don’t use science to say things that contradict our uncritical dogmas. If science says that men and women are different in various ways, for instance, don’t you dare mention that.

Until Medium proves that it’s capable of being remotely unbiased in applying its own rules and policies rather than operating like a fickle censor in a totalitarian regime, we have no reason to trust it or to sign on to view its paywall-protected content. As things currently stand, Medium would be more honest if it just came right out and said, “These are the basic dogmas we believe and expect you to believe and endorse if you want to write for our members-only section. It’s like, you know, members only!! If you want to be part of the club, you have to start acting like you belong.”