Refreshingly, Substack says it prefers not to interfere with moderation

This is an era when platforms across the spectrum, from big centralized social networks to email newsletter marketers succumb to outside pressure all too easily to censor their customers' content.

But not everyone is in a hurry to throw their users under the bus and become the self-appointed arbiter of truth, as this blog post by the founders of Substack, detailing the company's business model, and its approach to content moderation, reveals.

The platform, geared towards small publishers and writers whom it allows to send out newsletters and make money through subscriptions - says the issue is anything but simple and easy to resolve.

Firstly, Substack is keen to differentiate itself from third-party content social platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, which the post says dictate what their users can see thanks to algorithmically curated news feeds that favor and surface one type of content over another.

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