Substack co-founder says ‘we don’t like or condone bigotry,’ doesn’t explain how Notes will moderate it
by Jay Peters from The Verge - All Posts on (#6B42F)
Illustration by The Verge Substack CEO Chris Best may have not really answered Nilay Patel's Decoder questions about whether racist speech would be allowed on its new Twitter-like Substack Notes platform. But last Friday - more than a week after Best's interview on the Decoder podcast - co-founder Hamish McKenzie shared a firmer statement in (where else?) a Substack Note.
Last week, we caught some heat after Chris didn't accept the terms of a question from a podcast interviewer about how Substack will handle bigoted speech on Notes," McKenzie said. It came across poorly and some people sternly criticized us for our naivety while others wondered how we'd discourage bad behaviors and content on Notes. We wish that interview had gone better and that Chris had...