Substack’s Nazi content and the never-ending free speech vs. censorship dilemma
This news escaped me, but then I came across this response to my survey, which I ran for my Substack followers, asking for feedback on my newsletter.
“Are you staying on Substack given the Nazi approval by the CEO and staff?”
I was confused, but upon Googling, discovered the issue.
In short, there were newsletters with Nazi symbols and corresponding content. Substack didn’t do anything at first, standing by its hands-off approach to moderation, but eventually took them down, or let’s say, was pressured to take them down. One of the top writers left the platform anyway.
Hardly news to me — perhaps that’s why I wasn’t aware of this situation. I mean, these days, the free speech versus censorship debate is all too frequent.
The banning of Donald Trump on social media in the aftermath of the Capitol riot; then his reinstatement.
