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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: 3, Informative) by NotSanguine on Sunday June 16 2019, @10:46PM

    Usenet still is freely peered via the former motzarella.org/eternal-september.org project, which provides both free usenet access and peering arrangements for serious text-only users of usenet.

    Absolutely. But it's not *broadly used* as it once was. Mostly because the big ISPs either don't offer it (and most folks couldn't find their ass with both hands and a mirror, let alone motzarella.org/eternal-september.org project, if it ain't on FB or prominently offered by their ISP), charge extra for it, or don't mention it anywhere.

    More's the pity, as it's decentralized and *could be* broadly distributed and would be a strong bulwark against censorship.

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