Substack’s view of content moderation - Substack Blog

Building a system that puts readers and writers in charge

With that in mind, we commit to keeping Substack wide open as a platform, accepting of views from across the political spectrum. We will resist public pressure to suppress voices that loud objectors deem unacceptable. If you look at Substack’s leaderboards today, you’ll see writers from the left and the right, the populist and the elite, the low-brow and the high-brow, the secular and the faithful, the activist and the academic. We’re proud of this range and strongly believe that this breadth strengthens the discourse.

Ultimately, we think the best content moderators are the people who control the communities on Substack: the writers themselves...