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Perpetual #grifter #ShaunKing sent me the email below last night via #Substack. Because I've been busy doing other things and haven't gotten around to unsubscribing, he has so far sent me four additional messages today.
I _certainly_ did not subscribe to his Substack. As if I would ever!
It is, of course, against Substack's rules to subscribe people to a Substack without their consent.
#spam
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Show threadJonathan Kamens 86 47Oct 29
The email mentions, "We are now the #2 trending news platform on all of Substack." Presumably that's because he's goosing his numbers by adding people without their consent. That's quite a grift he's got going!
His "As-Salaam-Alaikum" at the top of the email caused me to dig a bit and learn that he King supposedly converted to Islam last year.
I am as sure as this article is <https://unherd.com/newsroom/is-shaun-kings-islam-conversion-a-grift/> that that's just another grift.
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Is Shaun King’s Islam conversion a grift?

Shaun King has found a new demographic to swindle: Muslims. The Black Lives Matter activist recently declared that he, along with his wife, converted — or “reverted” as Muslims often put it — to Islam on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan, under the guidance of popular Palestinian-American imam Omar Suleiman. After [...]Read More...

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Show threadJonathan Kamens 86 47Oct 29
I have, of course, complained to Substack using their web complaint form. They are a shitty company but if enough people complain they sometimes do something about stuff like this.
I will also, of course, unsubscribe, and report each of the messages King sent me as spam through SpamCop.
Ugh, just ugh.
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Show threadJonathan Kamens 86 47Oct 29
Oh, wow, the scale of King's current grift is even larger than I'd realized. He didn't just subscribe me against my will to one Substack newsletter. He's running seven different newsletters/podcasts and he subscribed me to all of them.
What an asshole.
Show threadjonathankoren™Oct 29
@jik it’s wild that Substack encourages such spammy behavior
Show threadJonathan Kamens 86 47Oct 29
@jonathankoren I wouldn't say they encourage it exactly, but the question remains whether they will do something substantive about it.
My guess is that if King brings in a lot of revenue for them (Substack takes 10% of subscription revenue), they'll give him a slap on the wrist, and if he doesn't and he pissed off enough people subscribed without their permission, they'll do something about it.