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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.
(Score: 2) by arslan on Sunday June 16 2019, @10:47PM (5 children)
I'm puzzled, decentralized alternatives like IPFS [ipfs.io] (and its various equivalents) have existed for a while now and yet the uptake just isn't there, even among the geeks. Is it because the issue is only serious enough for whinging in internet boards, but not enough to actually take action?
Heck, I'd be keen to run an IPFS node (or again any of its equivalents) for SN if SN ever decides to go that route.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 16 2019, @11:17PM (2 children)
The motivation wasn't there because these days tribalism requires political stands. When the alt-right declares itself under siege their tribes will follow.
(Score: 2) by arslan on Tuesday June 18 2019, @03:56AM
Yea.. it makes me ponder that engineering and tech should have some form of accreditation body with the single core principle of separation of tech and politics.
Any member mixing the two should be stripped and be labelled an outcast with whatever maximum negative professional consequences society & industry can inflict on said individual.
(Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Tuesday June 18 2019, @11:53PM
The 'alt-right' left for elsewhere ages ago. Those under siege on the big social media platforms haven't been alt-right for quite some time.
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday June 17 2019, @12:15AM (1 child)
If you have to run a "node", you're just asking for trouble. It's not really decentralized, it's more like "distributed". The system has to be absolutely positively transparent, blend in with the noise, catch the wave, hang ten...
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by arslan on Tuesday June 18 2019, @03:52AM
Not sure if I agree with your definition of decentralized vs distributed. Something can be distributed but can still have a single point of dependency, like a Kubernetes cluster, the worker nodes can be distributed but they all still depend on the central command & control like the master nodes. Decentralized means you have minimal, ideally no, dependency on a central thing.
IPFS to me is decentralized. The only potential central dependency is during bootstrap it requires to know at least 1 node to talk to to join the mesh - but that isn't strictly a "centralized" entity. There's a "central" registry that makes it easier for automation, but is not mandatory. I can boot a node and manually pass it a list of other nodes that I've validated separately if I want. The whole thing is entirely encapsulated within me and my node as another actor joining the mesh - not on some central thing.
I don't see why me running a node means its not decentralized. This is not a server node, there's no concept of a server vs. client nodes. It is just a node.