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Substack CEO Chris Best Doesn’t Realize He’s Just Become the Nazi Bar

by lehi on 4/14/23, 7:09 PM with 19 comments

• by paxys on 4/14/23, 7:57 PM

  That was a weird interview. The CEO should have answered with a simple – yes, people will be able to say "more brown people should not be let into the country" on Substack. His responses were instead a cop out that aren't satisfying anyone.

• by mensetmanusman on 4/14/23, 9:04 PM

  Someone should make a social media site where any one individual can delete any post. Would be a fascinating experiment to see if any information exchange gets allowed beyond a certain user base size.

• by MattGaiser on 4/14/23, 7:43 PM

  Is anyone aware of anyone being banned from Substack?

  My admittedly distant impression is that because it is more a publishing portal than social media is that anything pretty much goes. They have removed people, but to give the handle they had to others/back to themselves.

• by powera on 4/14/23, 8:28 PM

  So sick of various liberals saying "if you do not fully agree to our censorship regime, you are enabling Nazis".

  There are other ways to moderate a community. But critical thought doesn't get as many clicks as wild accusations.

• by spprashant on 4/14/23, 9:03 PM

  What is free speech, what should be protected, and what is hate speech - I don't see a way forward to address these, as long as the first amendment is interpreted in its current form.

  US Americans love quoting the first amendment to validate any and all arguments. Even political contributions are considered exercising of first amendment rights, making it impossible to regulate them.

  How do we even expect growth driven social media tech bros to actually come up with a solution for this?