Substack might be facing a showdown with the authoritarian left soon. The blogging and newsletter platform has recently come under fire for its decentralized moderation model, which allows a wide range of voices – including offensive ones – to express their ideas on the site.
The founders of the company have been dedicated to upholding the principle of free speech, much to the consternation of members of the progressive crowd, who prefer stifling ideas that contradict their own.
In a statement on Substack, co-founder Hamish McKenzie wrote:
I just want to make it clear that we don’t like Nazis either—we wish no-one held those views. But some people do hold those and other extreme views. Given that, we don’t think that censorship (including through demonetizing publications) makes the problem go away—in fact, it makes it worse.
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