More than 200 Substack authors asked the platform to explain why it’s “platforming and monetizing Nazis,” and now they have an answer straight from co-founder Hamish McKenzie:

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.

While McKenzie offers no evidence to back these ideas, this tracks with the company’s previous stance on taking a hands-off approach to moderation. In April, Substack CEO Chris Best appeared on the Decoder podcast and refused to answer moderation questions. “We’re not going to get into specific ‘would you or won’t you’ content moderation questions” over the issue of overt racism being published on the platform, Best said. McKenzie followed up later with a similar statement to the one today, saying “we don’t like or condone bigotry in any form.”

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    British don’t say “but hey”. Australians don’t. New Zelanders don’t. South African don’t. They could but they don’t. Therefore, “but hey” is fucking, broken american english which they instead call colloquial.

    But hey! It’s ok to speak fuckingly broken english.

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      Australians don’t.

      Yea we do, but hey, I wouldn’t expect a pompous ass to know that.

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        7 months ago

        JSAO, you have a 3cm dick. Relax.

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      You know what’s funnier? English isn’t my mother language, because I’m not American. But hey, what do I know?

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        You know what’s funnier?

        No.