@dangillmor

I'm feeling this too. Two years ago Substack defended prominent conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers profiting on the platform by saying that "the presence of writers with whom we strongly disagree” was a “necessary precondition for creating more trust in the information ecosystem as a whole.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/01/27/substack-misinformation-anti-vaccine/

Nine months ago Nilay Patel got this response from CEO Chris Best on Decoder when asking if they would allow overt racism in Substack Notes: https://vimeo.com/817611949/a001a450c1

Substack haven't been hiding this stance. They've been enforcing it clearly, consistently and in the open for years.