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

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: 2, Informative) by aristarchus on Sunday June 16 2019, @09:23PM (12 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Sunday June 16 2019, @09:23PM (#856342) Journal

    Pertinent part of the Original Submission:

    The grift of creating “alternative” social media sites for bigoted views under the guise of protecting free speech has been attempted prior. The alt-right Twitter alternative Gab is one of the prominent of these and has gone through many controversies, such as being frequented by the gunman in last year’s Pittsburgh synagogue shooting.

    At least JR kept the dept. line. I hope no one is putting any actual cash into this!

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by JNCF on Sunday June 16 2019, @10:07PM

    by JNCF (4317) on Sunday June 16 2019, @10:07PM (#856360) Journal

    I hope no one is putting any actual cash into this!

    Peterson only accepts beefcoins.

  • (Score: 3, Touché) by c0lo on Monday June 17 2019, @12:17AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 17 2019, @12:17AM (#856410) Journal

    I hope no one is putting any actual cash into this!

    Seems like RandomFactor is willing to put his cash [soylentnews.org] (where his mouth is?).

    (And he's standing in the queue at the ATM - large grin).

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  • (Score: 2, Touché) by NPC-131072 on Monday June 17 2019, @12:25AM (9 children)

    by NPC-131072 (7144) on Monday June 17 2019, @12:25AM (#856414) Journal

    Hello fren,

    Thank you for clarifying. This site is infested with trans-misogynist, trans-racialist and trans-abelist, trumptardian Nazi bigots who mod me offtopic and troll for simply inviting you to expand on your original submission. Those of us on the morally superior left know [wikipedia.org] everyone to the right of comrade Stalin is a Nazi. It is only proper that we deplatform Nazi ideas but we on the morally superior left must also do something about relentless down-mods of our superior opinions and progressive calls for social justice. Brother, are you with me?

    And for the Nazis who continually downmod me, I leave you with with a quote from our patron saint of social justice who knew a thing or two about deplatforming.

    What does social justice mean? It means work guaranteed, fair wages, decent homes, it means the possibility of continuous evolution and improvement. -- Benito Mussolini

    #FreeAristarchus

    • (Score: 4, Funny) by aristarchus on Monday June 17 2019, @12:40AM (3 children)

      by aristarchus (2645) on Monday June 17 2019, @12:40AM (#856419) Journal

      Anyone have a spare arrow handy? I see a NPC knee that needs one!

      (BTW, Benito was a Communist, before going to the dark side and ending badly, rather like how Donald used to be a New York Democrat. Ok, nothing like that, actually. )

      • (Score: 3, Touché) by c0lo on Monday June 17 2019, @02:16AM

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 17 2019, @02:16AM (#856442) Journal

        Only a sparrow, magister.
        As such, it's unladen - so no consideration of its geographical race (e.g. African vs European) [wikipedia.org] apply, which makes it even harder to swallow.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 17 2019, @09:53AM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 17 2019, @09:53AM (#856559)

        Mussolini was a fascist. The word fascist comes from the organizations he was involved with. He was never a communist and always opposed them.

        • (Score: 2, Informative) by aristarchus on Monday June 17 2019, @10:14AM

          by aristarchus (2645) on Monday June 17 2019, @10:14AM (#856563) Journal

          Nach Anfängen bei der sozialistischen Presse stieg Mussolini 1912 zum Chefredakteur von Avanti! auf, dem Zentralorgan des Partito Socialista Italiano (PSI).

          https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini [wikipedia.org]

          Your ignorance of history is profound, AC. Perhaps a course at a nearby community college?

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday June 17 2019, @02:22AM (4 children)

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 17 2019, @02:22AM (#856447) Journal

      I leave you with with a quote from our patron saint of social justice who knew a thing or two about deplatforming.

      Interesting pick for an author to quote from quite a number of them.
      Are you feeling a strong affiliation with him today? Does this happen to you often?

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      • (Score: 1) by NPC-131072 on Monday June 17 2019, @10:40PM (3 children)

        by NPC-131072 (7144) on Monday June 17 2019, @10:40PM (#856824) Journal

        Hello fren,

        Why you object to social justice? [campusreform.org]

        • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday June 17 2019, @11:42PM (2 children)

          by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 17 2019, @11:42PM (#856836) Journal

          Am not objecting. I'm only challenging your choice for the authorities you cite in regards with social justice.

          I also detect something that looks like a confusion between 'social justice' and SJW; the condition is known to occasionally cause pains and inflammations in the "cognitive dissonance" area - does it happen to you too?

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          • (Score: 0, Offtopic) by NPC-131072 on Tuesday June 18 2019, @12:43AM (1 child)

            by NPC-131072 (7144) on Tuesday June 18 2019, @12:43AM (#856849) Journal

            I also detect something that looks like a confusion between 'social justice' and SJW; the condition is known to occasionally cause pains and inflammations in the "cognitive dissonance" area - does it happen to you too?

            Hello fren,

            I know exactly what you mean. It's like when Joe Biden [livescience.com] says he's going to "cure" cancer. How can progressives get behind a candidate like this, at least not in the way feminist Joe gets behind young girls. [youtube.com] Cancer cells are clearly victims of systematic oppression by medical "science" and deserve protected minority status in the liberal utopia we're creating. Don't you agree?

            • (Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Tuesday June 18 2019, @11:31PM

              by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday June 18 2019, @11:31PM (#857238) Journal

              says he's going to "cure" cancer

              Meh. Just typical hyperbolic polispeak. Like 'we're going to defeat the other team', maybe you will, maybe you won't, it's just a goal. 'Cure cancer' is pretty safe as goals go.

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