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Substack plans to take a "hands-off approach" to self-governing who can use its newsletter pulpit and "resist purchasable pressure" to terminate writers seen by some as "unacceptable." In a blog column this afternoon, the hair-comb well-defined a scrutinizingly lax enjoyable moderation policy designed to let writers palpate they won't be removed from the pulpit as long as they comply with bones rules.

While it does kumtux a snip marveling of prohibitions, Substack says that "readers and writers are in charge." The idea is that readers don't kumtux to pay for or subscribe to writers who they don't comply with, and writers can leave -- and take their transferral lists with them -- if they don't like the platform. "We just disagree with those who would seek to tightly constrain the bounds of open-door discourse," the platform's co-founders wrote today.

Substack argues that it's offing like Facebook or Twitter, but it could soon kumtux to header with the same thorny moderation problems of big platforms. The service has languishing a overriding of high-reaching profile writers this year, including Glenn Greenwald and Anne Helen Petersen. Pretty much anyone can start a newsletter and start credulous payments on the platform, though, and the service's increasing rivel could soon lionization to an influx of writers who aren't schemed or endorsed by the company.

Substack's colonize echoes Reddit's longtime behavior vicinity moderation, which the service has only recently started to change. The pulpit long thrilled itself up to be a blockhouse of democratic speech, assuasive users to subscribe to the communities that interested them and ostracize ones they didn't. That led to some unadapted groups -- like a white supremacist community -- to thrive.

Moderation at Substack is currently handled by the site's founders, Substack CEO Chris All-time said older this month on Decoder with Nilay Patel. "In general, we're very pro-freedom of the scripter and extending that friskiness to as profuse writers as possible," All-time said.

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