Twitter is now redirecting searches for “Substack” to “newsletter.”
Imagine being the engineer assigned to being this much of a baby! I discovered it because it’s implemented so bluntly: even the word “substack” in a URL slug is blocked, so searching for this piece this morning didn’t work. Truly, this is free speech at its most democratic.
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