Substack continues to conflate their existence with a government entity. By definition, a company is always engaged in choices, cannot censor (unless it's the sole platform available), and has financial, regulatory, legal, and social responsibilities that differ from government censorship.
It’s such mealymouthed greedmongering that normalizes hateful speech no company is required to carry…just like no one is required to pay for Substack subscriptions. https://substack.com/@hamish/note/c-45811343
@glennf Glen what do you want, people to start applying morality to business?? Some kind of world where things would be better but we'd make slightly less money?? What would that even look like????
@glennf i dont think small buisness owners are foolish or intentionally bad, but i think they are often missing the big picture and make wildly bad predictions about what the impacts of new policie will be on their buisness
@glennf the great thing about job that pay exactly minimum wage is that it immediately tells you the boss would prefer to pay you less if only it were legal… (and that attitude will be present in all other aspects of the work…)
For the first time in our relationship, I just repeatedly snapped my fingers and pointed at something, and it was immediately clear that this is not behavior my wife wants to see repeated.
Stop by a dunks and grab an iced coffee before you settle in for my 7th Connections puzzle, which is BOSTON themed (probably easy for locals, will require minor googling for non locals) https://connections.swellgarfo.com/game/-NeO13arABNdbqG4acNT
