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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: 5, Insightful) by khallow on Monday June 17 2019, @03:57AM (2 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 17 2019, @03:57AM (#856493) Journal
    And what's supposed to be bad about that? When people have the freedom to express ideas, they gain the freedom to express ideas that you don't like. Sure, I wouldn't want to read about that stuff either. But my take is that we already figured out how to not read the ideas we don't like.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 17 2019, @02:40PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 17 2019, @02:40PM (#856648)

    >> Sure, I wouldn't want to read about that stuff either.
    Do you mind if I ask why? Just by reading, it doesn't mean you agree with it. I was under the impression that by exposing oneself to various ideas, one can avoid echo chambers and confirmation bias. No?

    • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by khallow on Monday June 17 2019, @07:34PM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 17 2019, @07:34PM (#856748) Journal
      I can tell when such is a waste of time. Just look at the titles:

      Conference currently being held in Manhattan to discuss ways to defeat white opposition to the advancement of Jewish interests. Imagine if whites held conference in opposition of Jews.

      Suppose it were even as the title claims. So what?

      'As faith in Christianity recedes in the West, a strange thing is happening. Having shaken off belief in God, people are not becoming more rational; they're becoming more gullible'

      People aren't "shaking off" belief in God nor becoming more gullible. It's a wish fulfillment headline.

      Jews over-represented in South Africa's anti-apartheid movement. Ruined a white country. Whites being massacred. Jews now fleeing South Africa to find new host. Recurring pattern throughout history.

      South Africa wasn't a "white country" in the first place.

      In each of these titles, basic premises are broken. No point to going further.

      White South African woman raped by black gunman speaks out. Children forced to watch, ordered to rape mother and sexually assaulted. Once whites are a minority, blacks will brutalize them.

      Standard fallacy deployment in the title. No reason to continue.

      There's a lot of noise out there. We need to filter it out or it's garbage in, garbage out.