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Jordan Peterson Close To Launching "Anti-Censorship" Social Media Platform
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2019 Jun 13, 2:27pm 1,894 views 17 comments
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Heraclitusstudent
2019 Jun 13, 3:33pm
Heraclitusstudent
2019 Jun 13, 3:33pm
Streaming video to millions may prove more challenging than twattling about Jung's archetypes.
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Ceffer
2019 Jun 13, 11:46pm
Ceffer
2019 Jun 13, 11:46pm
Will they have an uncensored ApocalypseFuck Live Feed 24/24, saying that Jordan Peterson has been raped by Putin while screaming MOMMEEEE! and should get a wedding dress at Marion Penitentiary?
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Hircus
2019 Jun 14, 7:57pm
Hircus
2019 Jun 14, 7:57pm
If it were to succeed and gain traction, libs will try to implement laws that will compel platforms to censure "hate speech". They can't stand powerful ideas that oppose theirs.
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Shaman
2019 Jun 14, 8:06pm
Shaman
2019 Jun 14, 8:06pm
I can see it succeeding actually. Enough people like Peterson that they will want to try it, and if it’s fun and reasonable, word will get around and more content will be posted. Face it, social media sites are only as good as their content, and their content is mostly added by users. If users are posting desirable content to a different social media platform, people will need to go to that one to see it.
And that’s how market share gets eroded. Before you know it, you fall down into a MySpace shaped hole and your uncool platform is relegated to the dustbin of history.
And that’s how market share gets eroded. Before you know it, you fall down into a MySpace shaped hole and your uncool platform is relegated to the dustbin of history.
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CBOEtrader
2019 Jun 14, 8:19pm
CBOEtrader
2019 Jun 14, 8:19pm
Quigley says
He should do it for free to blow up the user base. Subscription model for a platform w no users? Yikes, as a business man that scares me
I can see it succeeding actually.
He should do it for free to blow up the user base. Subscription model for a platform w no users? Yikes, as a business man that scares me
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Patrick
2019 Jun 14, 10:01pm
Patrick
2019 Jun 14, 10:01pm
Quigley says
I agree.
By banning content that people want to read, those social media sites are weakening themselves.
social media sites are only as good as their content, and their content is mostly added by users. If users are posting desirable content to a different social media platform, people will need to go to that one to see it.
I agree.
By banning content that people want to read, those social media sites are weakening themselves.
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MisdemeanorRebel
2019 Jun 15, 2:00am
MisdemeanorRebel
2019 Jun 15, 2:00am
You know what Big Tech/the SFBA Mob is gonna do.
"Hey Cloudflare, Hey Big Servers... if you don't pull down Peterson, we're cancelling our multi-million dollar contracts with you."
"Hey Peterson, if you don't ban Carl Benjamin and Styxhexenhammer, kiss your Bank of Asmodeus Account goodbye."
See Gab.
Hopefully it won't work. Or that those geothermal powered Icelandic Servers and Emirates Investment Bank step up.
"Hey Cloudflare, Hey Big Servers... if you don't pull down Peterson, we're cancelling our multi-million dollar contracts with you."
"Hey Peterson, if you don't ban Carl Benjamin and Styxhexenhammer, kiss your Bank of Asmodeus Account goodbye."
See Gab.
Hopefully it won't work. Or that those geothermal powered Icelandic Servers and Emirates Investment Bank step up.
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Patrick
2019 Jun 15, 8:07am
Patrick
2019 Jun 15, 8:07am
I was thinking the other day that everyone's own cellphone could be their personal web server.
Problems:
* Carriers often refuse to allow incoming connections. But some of them do. And the phone can be moved from cellular to wifi to get around that.
* Battery life would be bad if the phone keeps waking up to service requests, but if it's a spare phone plugged in at home, power would not be a problem.
* Bandwidth would probably not be good, but probably sufficient for running a personal site.
It would require some kind of dynamic DNS, where the domain name gets updated all the time as you move around.
Problems:
* Carriers often refuse to allow incoming connections. But some of them do. And the phone can be moved from cellular to wifi to get around that.
* Battery life would be bad if the phone keeps waking up to service requests, but if it's a spare phone plugged in at home, power would not be a problem.
* Bandwidth would probably not be good, but probably sufficient for running a personal site.
It would require some kind of dynamic DNS, where the domain name gets updated all the time as you move around.
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Hircus
2019 Jun 15, 7:44pm
Hircus
2019 Jun 15, 7:44pm
Patrick says
Opera kinda tried this some years back. They called it "Opera Unite". I thought it was a cool idea, but it never really caught on.
OT - Little known Opera innovated damn near all the good browser features we use today.
I was thinking the other day that everyone's own cellphone could be their personal web server.
Opera kinda tried this some years back. They called it "Opera Unite". I thought it was a cool idea, but it never really caught on.
OT - Little known Opera innovated damn near all the good browser features we use today.
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Patrick
2019 Jun 15, 11:08pm
Patrick
2019 Jun 15, 11:08pm
Thanks @Hircus I had not heard of Opera Unite. It's pretty much like what I wish the web would be, every browser also a server.
https://mashable.com/2009/06/15/opera-unite/
https://mashable.com/2009/06/15/opera-unite/
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Patrick
2021 May 26, 8:55am
Patrick
2021 May 26, 8:55am
https://twitter.com/Not_the_Bee/status/1397234272336072709
Jordan Peterson responds to "REAL communism has never been tried" and murders it with fire 🔥⚰️
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Hircus
2021 May 26, 12:27pm
Hircus
2021 May 26, 12:27pm
Patrick says
THat article had this quote from someone at Opera explaining how the feature came to be
His thoughts about the dangers of ceding control of such valuable things was very prescient just a handful of years later, where the idea of winning control back now seems like unlikely for the majority.
Thanks @Hircus I had not heard of Opera Unite. It's pretty much like what I wish the web would be, every browser also a server.
https://mashable.com/2009/06/15/opera-unite/
THat article had this quote from someone at Opera explaining how the feature came to be
"Our computers are only dumb terminals connected to other computers (meaning servers) owned by other people — such as large corporations — who we depend upon to host our words, thoughts, and images. We depend on them to do it well and with our best interests at heart. We place our trust in these third parties, and we hope for the best, but as long as our own computers are not first class citizens on the Web, we are merely tenants, and hosting companies are the landlords of the Internet.
Social networking is important, but who owns it — the online real estate and all the content we share on it? How much control over our words, photos, and identities are we giving up by using someone else’s site for our personal information? How dependent have we become? I imagine that many of us would lose most of our personal contacts if our favorite Web mail services shut down without warning. Also, many of us maintain extensive friend networks on sites like MySpace and Facebook, and are, therefore, subject to their corporate decisions via “Terms of Service” and click-through agreements. Furthermore, what does it mean anyway to be connected to hundreds of our “closest” friends? What about our real social networks, the people we want to interact with on a regular basis (like once a week, or even every day)? Why are online solutions to help us with our real-world social needs so few and far between?"
His thoughts about the dangers of ceding control of such valuable things was very prescient just a handful of years later, where the idea of winning control back now seems like unlikely for the majority.
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Psychologist and author Jordan B. Peterson announced this week that progress on Thinkspot, his subscription-based "anti-censorship" social media platform, has the project closer to launch.
Peterson and his team are beta testing the product, which he calls “an intellectual playground for censorship-free discourse”, according to the Washington Times. It comes at a time when social media sites like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Pinterest have been accused of arbitrarily enforcing vague terms of service and overreaching in their left-wing biased policing of their respective platforms.
“Announcing Thinkspot: a new online communication platform (as promised post-Patreon),” Peterson wrote Wednesday on Facebook.
Recall, just days ago, we reported that documents leaked to Project Veritas by a Pinterest insider reveal that the San Francisco-based social media company has blocked links from Zero Hedge and several conservative or religious-based websites - adding them to a 'porn domain block list' originally intended to keep the platform free of sexually explicit material.
Peterson began to take a stand against social media when YouTuber Carl Benjamin, aka Sargon of Akkad, was removed from Patreon in December 2018. Benjamin's "infraction" came as a result of him actually mocking his racist critics on another platform by using a racial epithet.
On the June 9 Joe Rogan podcast, Peterson describes platform by saying: “Once you’re on our platform we won’t take you down unless we’re ordered to by a US court of law.”
Peterson's fans were ecstatic, leaving comments like:
This is fantastic news and a testament of [sic] the power of the free market to balance things out! Amazing, and truly looking forward to signing up to Thinkspot!”
“This is great news! Alternative free speech platforms are the only way forward so we no longer have to trudge through the mires of increasing corporate censorship.”
“I can already see the media hit pieces lining up and the payment processing companies putting together their press releases.”
“This is what the social scene on the internet needs. Some strict competition to the usual social sites and their censorship garbage. And if it’s backed and headed up by Peterson makes it all the more engaging.”
We will certainly keep an eye out for when the product is launched.
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