Why Platformer is leaving Substack

Casey Newton explains his decision to move his Platformer newsletter off the Substack platform:

What about the fact that censorship will not make extremism go away, and might even make it worse? 

We didn’t ask Substack to solve racism. We asked it to give us an easy, low-drama place to do business, and to commit to not funding and accelerating the growth of hate movements. Ultimately we did not get either.