> We do not allow hate, defined as publishing content or funding initiatives that call for violence, exclusion, or segregation based on protected classes. This does include serious attacks on people based on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or medical condition. It does not include attacks on ideas, ideologies, organizations, or individuals for other reasons, even if those attacks are cruel or unfair.

So what does this mean when authors write about things like gender identity? Can Abigail Shrier (https://twitter.com/AbigailShrier/status/1277906221618487296) or Debra Soh (https://twitter.com/DrDebraSoh/status/1285649878308323328) or Ryan Anderson (https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2021/02/when-amaz...) expect to be allowed on this platform without being censored or deplatformed? What about the millions of parents of girls, who do not want transwomen (biological men) in women’s sports - would Substack label content pushing for such separation as “hateful”?

And to reverse the situation: what about proponents of affirmative action, which is a call for active racial discrimination against some races like Asians and Whites? Or those calling for segregated graduation ceremonies at colleges?

How do words like “exclusion” or “segregation” apply in all these instances? Why doesn’t Substack just let all legal non-spam speech operate on its platform instead of defining vague rules that will no doubt be abused in the future?

If Substack practices the same censorship we've seen elsewhere, it really is not useful to me as a platform. We already have a whole collection of tech companies that practice biased censorship.