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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@rysiek : that’s so dumb. It would have been easy to simply say:

"I would hate someone saying that. But the platform is not about what I like and what I don’t. There’s a professional team dedicated to moderation and setting rules based on laws and global moderation policies that work instead of what the CEO like or not."

It would have said the same thing, while pointing at Musk and still providing personal sympathy.

The fact that CEO are not even able to do that is concerning.

Apr 14, 2023 at 2:57pmWeb