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The second Nazi's, militant cop-killer proponents, and child porn enthusiasts start publishing on Substack, we'll see how "pro free speech" they are.


Yeah going through their "Content Guidelines" there's a lot of stuff that's clearly up to the moderators to decide according to their ideology. For an easy example:

>We don’t allow content that promotes harmful or illegal activities, including material that advocates, threatens, or shows you causing harm to yourself, other people, or animals.

I have seen plenty of substacks talking about the war in Ukraine (for example [0]). This is _clearly_ advocating harm to other people -- you're talking about soldiers and weapons in war after all. Is this breaking the guidelines? Taken literally yes, but of course not in practice.

Eventually, somebody's idea of what is acceptable will clash with the moderation, and we will see the same cries of censorship and deplatforming we see everywhere else.

[0] https://patrickfox.substack.com/p/lets-fck-with-vlad-part3


CSAM isn't covered by "free speech" in any major developed country, and there are international treaties to combat its spread [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_child_pornography




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