substack plans to take a’hands-off approach’ to determining who can use its newsletter platform and’resist public pressure’. The company outlined a relatively lax content moderation policy designed to let writers know they wo n’t be removed from the platform as long as they comply with basic rules.

Substack’s co-founders said that’we just disagree with those who would seek to tightly constrain the bounds of acceptable discourse’.

The service has attracted a number of high profile writers this year. It could soon lead to an influx of writers who are n’t endorsed by the company.

Substack’s platform long held itself up to be a bastion of free speech, allowing users to subscribe to the communities that interested them. That led to some troubling groups – like a white supremacist community – to thrive.