He took note of the concerns of numerous members and he's currently discussing what to do with other staff members.
The issues with the Press board have been going on for years and have been discussed for years. See this thread from Foxpup 6 years ago: New Board Suggestion: "Actual Press". See also all these threads discussing the mess that is the Press board:
6 years we have had a complaints for this board of legalized plagiarism in which >90% of topics are simply advertising spam for crypto "news" sites. If after 6 years of complaints there is not even a response, then the only logical conclusion is either satisfaction with the current situation or complete apathy towards that board. Either way, it doesn't seem worth our time to continue to push to clean it up.
Free speech is free speech and (we) can't do nothing that goes against it.
As I've said above and as I've shown many times on this forum, I will always argue in defense of free speech, even when that speech is particularly stupid or repulsive. But there is a very obvious difference between protecting controversial speech and ideas, and allowing someone to stand up in the middle of a debate with a megaphone and repeatedly shout "VISIT MY WEBSITE", drowning out all sensible discussion and resulting in most people present to get up and leave, which is effectively what these spammers are doing.