Chris Best

And it's something that the political winds have shifted since those early days.

A lot of people who were critical of us for platforming people have faced censorship pressures themselves and have now come to understand the value of a liberal commitment to freedom of the press.

I also think there are

I want to sort of give the critics their due here or give the opposing side its due.

There's a way you can go about this where if you just said, look, any kind of check on expression is presumptively wrong.

And so the only way to actually have freedom of expression is for anybody to be able to say anything they want in any venue at any time.

And you kind of like throw the thing fully open.

I actually think that can be a trap as well.

You can create kind of like a Thunderdome-like thing where it's the equivalent of like you being in your living room, people feeling free to come in and shout at you all the time.

And you're just like, hey, this doesn't work either.

And I think some platforms can kind of like let that dynamic fly too far.

So the point of Substack is not that there's no rules, right?

The point of Substack is that there's not one set of rules.

It's not Chris coming in and saying, here's what everyone's allowed to say.

It's like your Substack is your house.

And you get to set the rules and you can have them be quite strict.

You can say, we're not allowed to call names here or only Christian things or only anti-Christian things.

And that's good, right?

Of course.

Because I think the thing that we need to show is that you can have freedom and civilization at the same time.