There were lots and lots of blogs with similar opinions. It’s really the case that they played up their hosting of some controversial writers in order to build

There were lots and lots of blogs with similar opinions. It’s really the case that they played up their hosting of some controversial writers in order to build publicity - hence one of their founders appears on Joe Rogan etc. You can admire their stance and business model or not but let’s not pretend they were out of the ordinary.