you are correct, that was Substack. their owner explicitly said they’d be laissez-faire on moderation even when bluntly asked about things like nazis, which looked so bad
@alyaza@Lost_Wanderer I just re-listened to that interview. #ChrisBest didn’t explicitly say #SubstackNotes would be laissez-faire–he refused to say anything at all. It seemed to me like they currently plan to be laissez-faire until racism became a serious problem–I’m guessing he refused to answer the question so that he wouldn’t give the far right a sound bite to latch onto and then give them explicit license to brigade the website with racist spam. This also makes him not seem like a liar in the event that they tighten moderation rules in the future.
you are correct, that was Substack. their owner explicitly said they’d be laissez-faire on moderation even when bluntly asked about things like nazis, which looked so bad
@alyaza @Lost_Wanderer I just re-listened to that interview. #ChrisBest didn’t explicitly say #SubstackNotes would be laissez-faire–he refused to say anything at all. It seemed to me like they currently plan to be laissez-faire until racism became a serious problem–I’m guessing he refused to answer the question so that he wouldn’t give the far right a sound bite to latch onto and then give them explicit license to brigade the website with racist spam. This also makes him not seem like a liar in the event that they tighten moderation rules in the future.