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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 Reziac on Tuesday June 18 2019, @02:23AM
"50 words" was just a preliminary idea for how the site would work, but you amply demonstrate why one can't quantify insightfulness as a certain minimum of verbiage.
In short, it's a dumb idea based on too much idealism with regard to how discussion sites work, but I'm sure that will become obvious about two seconds after the site opens to the public, or even to the first beta testers.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.