Matt is generally pretty cool, I find, and I'm neither Christian nor what I would consider conservative, so it's nice to have that bit of common ground. :)

As for that first rhetorical question of yours, I remember Hedges saying something in an interview--in fact, it might have been Matt interviewing him--that he thought the government would start putting pressure on Substack sooner or later, and that Substack would eventually cave after that. I sure hope that he's wrong, but we've seen it happen often enough to other platforms...