That was a weird interview. The CEO should have answered with a simple – yes, people will be able to say "more brown people should not be let into the country" on Substack. His responses were instead a cop out that aren't satisfying anyone.
It was astonishing how unprepared he was to receive a question on content moderation a day after launching a social network being compared to twitter.
I’m always surprised when I see an actual respectable journalist on substack as opposed to yet another crank hawking gold/crypto/etc with literal-minded horse-blinder rhetoric only based on internal logic and not the real world.
Cheers to Nilay for pressing him for a real answer and not letting him shrug off the Q. If we’re gonna spend time letting these CEOs shill their platforms let’s make them answer the hard Qs.
This more than anything tells me he doesn’t get how difficult of a problem it is.