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Ask HN: Where to publish a critical work with potentially offensive content

#1
I have a publication on Medium https://medium.com/luminasticity where I publish some critical works, some poetry, some science fiction, humour etc.

I have been pushing around writing a piece that might end up being quite long on Mark Twain and Racism, as it pertains to Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, and Pudd'nhead Wilson.

And of course in writing this there are some well known racial slurs (and some antiquated, unfamiliar ones) that will have to be quoted and referred to, which I expect would probably end up getting my account automatically banned.

The article will be showing Huckleberry Finn and Pudd'nhead Wilson as anti-racist works, so don't suggest any actually pro-racism sites.

I suppose this is an argument for hosting one's own blog, but I do have a lot on my plate already.

So just is there a platform for this kind of thing where one won't run into algorithmic banning - or moderation by people not overly familiar with American English literature who might misinterpret what they read?

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#3
This is not meant to be a 'cute' humorous response, but a serious one: trying to think of places that likely have next to no algorithmic banning, I wonder if Pastebin is a solution. Perhaps I think of this because my earliest Internet experiences were with days of BBSs, with directories of text files and newsgroup postings.

Re: Ask HN: Where to publish a critical work with potentially offensive content

#4
I just hosted my own website where I can publish whatever I want. It's static. I guess if I ever get banned by my provider I will flip to a new one. If my domain goes down - I'll find another registrar. All static, so it's easy to port.

Re: Ask HN: Where to publish a critical work with potentially offensive content

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This is not meant to be a 'cute' humorous response, but a serious one: trying to think of places that likely have next to no algorithmic banning, I wonder if Pastebin is a solution. Perhaps I think of this because my earliest Internet experiences were with days of BBSs, with directories of text files and newsgroup postings.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/nag_hammadi_library

Re: Ask HN: Where to publish a critical work with potentially offensive content

#8
> I suppose this is an argument for hosting one's own blog, but I do have a lot on my plate already.

Hosting a simple static page is extremely easy nowadays. But if you really just want a pre-existing website where you can write some text with basic formatting and probably not have to worry about it being removed, try rentry.co

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#9

This is not meant to be a 'cute' humorous response, but a serious one: trying to think of places that likely have next to no algorithmic banning, I wonder if Pastebin is a solution. Perhaps I think of this because my earliest Internet experiences were with days of BBSs, with directories of text files and newsgroup postings.

>I wonder if Pastebin is a solution

Pastebin has had overly aggressive algorithmic deletions for a few years now, I wouldn't use it.

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