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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 16 2019, @11:07PM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 16 2019, @11:07PM (#856382)

    Conservative psychologist/alt-right guru Jordan Peterson

    Has he described himself as 'alt-right' or is this just a smear to lump him in with other bad hombres that we MUST censor?

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 16 2019, @11:20PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 16 2019, @11:20PM (#856387)

    Alt-right means "not Marxist enough."

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 17 2019, @12:26AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 17 2019, @12:26AM (#856415)

      Or insufficiently LGBTQ2S friendly.

    • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Arik on Monday June 17 2019, @02:36AM

      by Arik (4543) on Monday June 17 2019, @02:36AM (#856451) Journal
      "Alt-right means "not Marxist enough.""

      If the speaker is ctrl-left it just means anyone that disagrees with them on anything. They just called Bill Maher alt-right, you couldn't make this stuff up.

      On the other hand, the center-right "dark web" coalition against them flirted with the label for something like 2 weeks, before some racist nationalist lunatics became too associated with it and the rest therefore turned their back on the term.

      So it's a very funny word, one of those words that tells you more about the speaker than the purported object of their speech. Simply using the phrase marks you as almost certainly an authoritarian, whether on the far left or far right.
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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by pbnjoe on Monday June 17 2019, @01:23AM (1 child)

    by pbnjoe (313) on Monday June 17 2019, @01:23AM (#856432) Journal

    It is completely a smear. Not only has he not described himself as alt-right, he has repeatedly distanced himself from the alt-right and laid out their issues when questioned as to why people call him that. How can you be a "guru" of something you want nothing to do with?

    The Daily Dot is an opinionated blog pretending to be a newspaper. I can only guess it is a poor attempt at having a veneer of legitimacy. This one piece alone has a lie (alt-right guru) and an opinionated interjection ("Because there's no way..."), and there's no opinion tag to be found because they don't exist on that website. Other pieces of "reporting" there include tweets about a garbage search result regarding a toddler cartoon character. [dailydot.com]

    The editor did a good job removing aristarchus' "additions" in the original submission, but sadly the source material wasn't much better.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by pbnjoe on Monday June 17 2019, @01:35AM

      by pbnjoe (313) on Monday June 17 2019, @01:35AM (#856435) Journal

      In seemingly every post they have about the man, they call him alt-right with a hyperlink to make you assume they have proof of it, but all it links to is another instance of them name-calling or their piece about the term in general. What a repugnant excuse for a publication. Everyone involved should be embarrassed. Make sure you have ad-block enabled if you visit to see what I mean.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Reziac on Tuesday June 18 2019, @02:20AM

    by Reziac (2489) on Tuesday June 18 2019, @02:20AM (#856872) Homepage

    He's actively denied being "alt-right" and has in fact stated that "the alt-right hates me" (which, in my observation, is largely the case).

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