Free Speech and Moral Boundaries - A Link for You
I wrote elsewhere this morning about Benjamin Franklin and free speech on Substack. Here is a link.
Good morning, friends.
A discussion opened two days ago among hundreds of writers on Substack about how and whether the platform should address the presence of white supremacists or neo-Nazis.
I set aside my planned post at PeaceLinks, my other Substack, yesterday to enter the conversation with an article reviving Benjamin Franklin’s guidelines for determining when to decline a customer and when to turn a blind eye to content he was asked to print.
His principles, I think, are both interesting to read today and highly relevant to Substack as it grows and wrestles with its own questions of what to include and exclude. I’m pleased with the essay and want you all to have a chance to read it if you’re interested.
Rather than reposting the whole of it here and adding duplication to some of your inboxes, I will simply add a direct link for those who have not seen the essay and would like to do so.
I like to think of this as a contribution to my Unquiet Writing file.
Peace,
Tara
Thank you.
I'm heading over to Peacelinks now, thank you Tara. Yes, this likely does go in the unquiet category.