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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: 5, Informative) by pbnjoe on Monday June 17 2019, @01:23AM (1 child)
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
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.