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Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot

posted by janrinok on Sunday June 16 2019, @08:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the thinks-pot-should-be-legal? dept.

aristarchus writes:

From reporting by The Daily Dot.

Conservative psychologist/alt-right guru Jordan Peterson officially announced that he is launching what he calls a "free speech platform" known as Thinkspot.

Peterson insists that Thinkspot will adhere to his principles of anti-censorship so strongly that the platform will only ban or remove users if it is ordered to do so by the U.S. court of law. Because there's no way that could go horribly wrong.

Peterson also mentioned that Thinkspot will have a minimum word count as opposed to a maximum. "If minimum comment length is 50 words, you're gonna have to put a little thought into it," Peterson said to the right-wing outlet NewsBusters. "Even if you're being a troll, you'll be a quasi-witty troll."

Thinkspot is being marketed as a creator-to-consumer payment processor such as Patreon while also serving as an alternative to services such as Twitter and YouTube.

Thinkspot has an intended release date of August 2019.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 16 2019, @08:39PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 16 2019, @08:39PM (#856335)

    Then it's no damn good. We need a system that no court can interfere with in any fashion. The client/server WAN cannot protect us. The service providers are just tools.

    This guy won't last exactly because of this weakness.

  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by RandomFactor on Sunday June 16 2019, @09:36PM (1 child)

    by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Sunday June 16 2019, @09:36PM (#856345) Journal

    I'm not overly worried about court-censored speech. It tends to be post-facto, not preemptive censorship, and subject to actual legal reasoning (ignoring the DMCA, but that's a different rabbithole)
     
    What we are seeing right now however is prior restraint on speech and information on various platforms comprising the public square, enforced in a progressively more real-time automated fashion.
     
    I don't really think we need another 'free speech' platform, we've got those. It would be better consolidating in that area and this being a pure payment processing play. There is a massive disaffected market there.

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    В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 16 2019, @10:57PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 16 2019, @10:57PM (#856379)

      We need more web sites, not platforms.