At Substack, we don’t make moderation decisions based on public pressure or PR considerations.
An important principle for us is defending free expression, even for stuff we personally dislike or disagree with. We understand principles come at a cost. 🧵
Now that Substack has declared an ironclad commitment to free speech things ought to get pretty interesting.
I personally have long thought that any such commitment from a centralized service comes with a built in expiration date.
Get noticed by the wrong people and pressure will be brought to bear on Substack.
Go too far over whatever line they have and an exception will be made.
Egregious free speech is not going to be tolerated ultimately.
Rationalizations will be made for it but bans will happen.
Substack is making a promise they can’t keep, in my opinion. We’ll see.