Big Technology

What Glenn Greenwald Fears From Substack

‘They’re going to have to prepare now about how to resist the onslaught that absolutely will be coming in their direction`

Alex Kantrowitz
OneZero
Published in
18 min readFeb 3, 2021

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Glenn Greenwald

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In January, I wrote a story for OneZero about the content moderation war in store for smaller social platforms like Clubhouse, Spotify, and Substack. As part of my reporting, I reached out to Glenn Greenwald, a strident voice against moderation who left The Intercept for Substack last year. While I’m not in lockstep with Greenwald ideologically, I wanted to hear, and present, his thoughts at length.

This week’s Big Technology Podcast features my full conversation with Greenwald, where we discuss his move to Substack, the line between content moderation and censorship, and Joe Rogan.

Alex Kantrowitz: First of all, how’s the move to Substack going?

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Alex Kantrowitz
OneZero

Veteran journalist covering Big Tech and society. Subscribe to my newsletter here: https://bigtechnology.com.