Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦Apr 14, 2023

Wow that #Substack CEO interview is a train wreck:
https://www.theverge.com/23681875/substack-notes-twitter-elon-musk-content-moderation-free-speech

Q: No, I really want you to answer that question. Is that allowed on Substack Notes? “We should not allow brown people in the country.”

A: I’m not going to get into gotcha content moderation.

Q: This is not a gotcha... I’m a brown person. Do you think people on Substack should say I should get kicked out of the country?

A: I’m not going to engage in content moderation, “Would you or won’t you this or that?”

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Show threadAlex Chaffee
@rysiek yeah, he *totally* wanted to say "yes that kind of racism is okay" -- he *should* have said "yes, we will allow people to say some dumb stuff but here is our plan for moderating out harmful stuff" -- but he didn't even have a plan to point to and seems to think "we just launched yesterday" is an excuse for "we launched without a moderation plan" (it's not)
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Show threadMichał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦Apr 14, 2023
@alexch I think he got the line about not engaging with hypotheticals and "gotcha" questions from his lawyer or whatever and thought it's amazingly smart.