Post #1338440
2023-04-14 18:41 UTC
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@proximacentauri@mstdn.social 2023-04-14 18:44
@Popehat @mmasnick https://www.popehat.com/ vs https://popehat.substack.com/ Long live popehat.com!
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@alisca@mastodon.ie 2023-04-14 18:57
@Popehat @mmasnick @nilay_patel part of it's brain-freeze, some of it is poor media training (or none) but mainly it's a tech bro trick where they think if they say nothing, the interviewer will fill the void to kill the dead air. Fortunately Mister Patel - Scott Pilgrim Reference - is an experienced, smart interviewer and knows how to fuck.
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@jschuh@infosec.exchange 2023-04-14 19:02
@Popehat @mmasnick @nilay_patel I feel like I get it. From my own experience the worst thing that can come out of this kind of interview is to get pinned down saying something that turns into a really bad headline. So, he just stuck to the canned line that the lawyers and PR cooked up. The thing is that it's really not very hard to avoid getting pinned down without completely faceplanting like he did. But that would require being at least somewhat versed in trust and safety concerns, and being able to point to some actual efforts Substack is making in that space. IMHO the complete failure at that is why this interview was so bad. Because it reinforces all the other evidence that Substack is simply ignoring trust and safety almost entirely as a concern.
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@dirkhh@hachyderm.io 2023-04-14 19:35
@Popehat I hear that in some leftist / woke circles there is still some remaining bad connotation to being a "proud Nazi"... Maybe that's why he isn't just openly saying this... To pander to that fringe part of society that thinks being a Nazi is... you know... BAD? @mmasnick @nilay_patel
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@nikclayton@mastodon.social 2023-04-14 20:00
@Popehat @mmasnick @nilay_patel I read the transcript. Refusing to answer the question could easily be "we have a team of people who moderate. I don't have our ToS in front of me. I'm not going to make our moderation team's job harder by making stuff up on the fly in the middle of the interview". Elsewhere in the interview he said that Notes is covered by their ToS, and the interviewer said that his hypothetical would be banned by the ToS.