Chris Best

It's not the case that...

The only alternatives are some centralized power that tells you what it's okay to think and say, or complete anarchy where everybody just shouts at each other.

With some structure and with some giving people the right tools and the right power themselves, you can have something that actually works and is beautiful and that people are free.

That one was kind of like right wing content.

It was like, hey, there's offensive stuff from the far right.

And that's true.

There is some far right stuff and there's far left stuff and there's offensive things of all stripes.

Well, here's another, like, here's another, because there's been a series of controversies of like, why is thing X allowed on Substack?

One of them was kind of like, what's going on with trans issues?

One of them was this kind of, you know, why are you allowing right-wing people?

But the other one I'm now remembering was sort of COVID skepticism.

There was people who were running the gamut from, you know, are these vaccines good?

To like, where did this virus come from?

To are the measures we're taking against it the right ones?

And there was really, really strong pushback and a strong sort of cultural and sometimes legal thing that was like, you know, you can't let people say this stuff.

You can't let people question these things.

And we took a position that you gotta let people question this stuff.

And I think some of that stuff, in my judgment,

It is crankery, right?

Like I think a lot of the anti-vax stuff is not right and probably does harm and is net bad.