Trinity Term in-person exams to run from 0th week. ), (Not that we’re lacking in such. Basic users – free and you get to write comments on things other people write. My invite comes with the privilege of sending out 10 free invites to others. Then there’s his complaints that he can’t physically attack women in conversations the way he’s (apparently) socially permitted to with men. If you are at least a bit familiar with Peterson’s very particular ideas and themes, scattered across hours of content produced by Mr. Peterson himself, his critics, and fans — thinkspot’s featured commentators won’t surprise you. Having signed up sometime ago out of morbid curiosity, I finally received an invite to the Beta version yesterday. It’s pretty much become a multi-level marketing or affinity scam targeting people who have grievances against the government. He is now a common name, and a polarising one at that. It would also be, as he’s said in his lectures and interviews, “autonomous and self-improving, a minimum of administrative overhead, extremely low cost, widespread availability, crowd-sourced in its structure and autonomously self-improving.”. You’re acting like a bunch of n*****s, just so you know. How somebody gets to be a contributor is unclear but you can get paid. It has proved impossible to respond to these properly. 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The doctor I worked with was not able to continue to work on it for her family reasons. Press Esc to cancel. That Heather MacDonald? Unfortunately, maintaining a high quality of content doesn’t seem to be a priority for social media companies, which regularly collaborate with advertising agencies, politicians, lobbying firms, and various governments at the expense of their users. It prevents not only the broadening of people’s minds but the open criticism of bad ideas. The announcement also promises that the site will have a minimum word limit – an attempt to force people to present an argument and not just throw obscenities – and a down-/upvote system. So it is not a matter of simply applying some simple legal criteria and removing posts/comments that break the defamation-law. They’re the legal version of a Gish Gallop, and set up to abuse the assumption of good faith the court usually tries to give people. The document I mentioned deliberately tried to catalogue and categorize such actions so as to give judges a heads-up on when someone is trying to play on the system in this way. Having said that, the guideline implies a more useful standard of removing content that appears to be defamatory. This is how the idea for the censorship-free thinkspot seems to have been born. The Melt Age is a place to share thoughts outside of paywalls and trackers. . In hindsight, it made sense that comedians pushed the boundaries of dialogue outside of mainstream media, as the best of them — Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Bill Hicks, to name a few — intentionally positioned themselves outside of the ideological confines of media conglomerates, which is what made their commentary stand out. 2018). No, thank you. It would be unhelpful and disingenuous to claim Professor Jordan Peterson should not stand and address the Oxford Union on the basis that he is a misogynist, a conspiracy theorist or a borderline racist. ), //I mean, heck, we have Freeman-on-the-Land types here in Canada who use exactly the same Sovereign Citizen rhetoric as the U.S//, In Australia as well, where it makes even less sense. Since current social media monopolizers are unable to provide a platform that doesn’t leak or sell our photos and messages to teenage hackers and data vendors, there are new, edgy, next level digital communication platforms coming our way! There is a lot of anti-feminism, anti-progressivism (regressivism?) That said, you probably underestimate just how much Canadian culture is inundated with U.S.-made news and entertainment. BEN DONALDSON A recent article in Cherwell argued that Dr Jordan Peterson should not be allowed to speak at the Union. This was a plan he teased out over the past year; now he’s begun development on its first “module,” according to recent interviews. Meaningful participation in today’s information streams still requires a lot of resources, both from production and consumption side of things. Please remember Rule 2: Keep submissions and comments civil. “We cannot have a society where when two people wish to communicate, the only way it can happen is if it’s financed by a third person who wishes to manipulate them,” Lanier said at a TED conference in Vancouver, as reported by Quartz. In a sense, the overblown reaction to Rogan’s support of Sanders (a politician who clearly isn’t fancied by the ruling class) was an attempt to delegitimize the role of independent shows like the JRE in the U.S. political discourse, and to draw a line between it and places like CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, Washington Post, Politico, and Fox News which don’t have to explain their “probable support” to the public. @Camestros: I regret that I have only one like button to click, Kip. How Lockdown brought out the runner in me. It makes sense to me that the presence of such commentators in the mainstream is crucial if the Republican Party wants to attract more supporters. The platform is (and I’m being as generous as possible) a confusing mess. In particular from a Canadian, and in particular considering the slight problems we’re currently seeing with democracy in USA. Facebook’s fact-checking program includes the right-wing, pro-Trump outlet Daily Caller, co-founded by Fox News pundit Tucker Carlson. Hi Jordan, My name is Egor. I don’t think thinkspot will necessarily go the same way as Gab i.e. Moderators will be enforcing this rule more seriously in [Letter] threads. How will Peterson create a crowd-sourced university? The New York Times’ in-house conservative columnist David Brooks declared in January that we are in the “Jordan Peterson moment,” and speculated that the is “the most influential public intellectual in the Western world right now.”. Log in. To the contrary—Carl was invited to be one of the first testers of thinkspot, along with other selected individuals (more on that later). You can reach me at: info@themeltage.com. I don’t think we need to punish Silicon Valley, we just need to remake the decision. Thinkspot’s close-ended publishing system ensures that all roads lead to the same old hodgepodge of anti-left rhetoric and praise of hierarchies, mixed with what’s marketed as comedy, music, and commentary on current affairs. Subscribers to contributors – a minimum of an extra $30 a year per contributor you subscribe to. Jordan B Peterson giving a lecture at the University of Toronto. Lanier imagines a world of “peak social media” and what that could mean: It could mean that when you get on you can get really good, authoritative medical advice instead of cranks. What is Cancel Culture? Peterson is not the alt-right. What effect will Trump’s policies have on public health? As I mentioned earlier, Dr. Lomborg is a controversial academic who is known for arguing that the dangers of climate change are overstated—in other words, he was thinkspot before there was thinkspot.

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