one of the least prepared, worst responses this year

I just boosted this but holy shit this is just an amazingly bad conversation – genuinely astounding both in content and in Chris Best’s complete lack of preparation or understanding about what he’s doing – and it needs to be shared around.

Nilay Patel – a person of colour – asked CEO Chris Best about moderation on Substack – whether he’d allow, for example, someone calling for Brown people to be expelled from the country to post on his platform.

Chris tries everything he can to deflect and not answer, including going to the incredibly-tired “I’m not going to answer gotcha questions” when he’s interrupted and told, “I AM A BROWN PERSON” before being asked the question again.

Eventually Best just literally sits there in silence, refusing to answer.

Absolutely the only read I can take from this is that CEO Chris Best absolutely wants to allow overt racism and white nationalism on Substack Notes, theoretically in the name of “free speech” but really because he’s cool with it, and is absolutely is not willing to own his shit.

And if he allows that, then obviously you know what else he’ll allow.

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