Holy crap, Nilay Patel just ruthlessly corners Substack’s CEO Chris Best on moderating racist content and I love it

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR35o66A/

TikTok - Make Your Day

Like, you know, it is within the realm of human possibility to just not actively build a half-abandoned combination shopping mall / conference center that lets anyone wander in and use it as a venue for complete fuckery
Like, it's not censorship to simply decline to build & hand out megaphones to absolute dipshits
This shouldn't be a difficult stand to take
@lmorchard Dude, word. I’m just exhausted with folks wanting to reap the profits of being a publisher (such as they are) without taking responsibility for being a publisher. The notion that it makes any sense to say “I do not agree with or promote this message I am amplifying—I.e., promoting” is a distinctly modern lunacy.

@dave0 @lmorchard "I want to let our readers and writers decide this."

The answer is a resounding yes.

@Wikisteff @dave0 @lmorchard 2012 called - they want their wishy washy bullshit about public forums back. ...for some reason this guy doesn't want to piss off the rightwing "free speech" fuckwits who, alongside railing against censorship, enjoy banning books and outlawing Rocky Horror Picture Show
@pjandy @dave0 @lmorchard Maybe they are The Money.