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Jordan Peterson’s Thinkspot Is a Welcome Social Media Option. Will It Work?0
- Front Page, Tech Freedom
- July 23, 2019
Last month, the controversial psychologist and popular public speaker Jordan Peterson announced that he is creating a new social media site. Billed as an “anti-censorship” platform, “Thinkspot” would allow users to post virtually whatever they want. “Once you’re on our platform we won’t take you down unless we’re ordered to by a US court of
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Is Privacy an Indispensable Right?0
- Recommended, Tech Freedom
- July 3, 2019
The right to privacy was indispensable to our country’s founders. That right is contained or implied throughout first ten amendments in our founding document: The Bill of Rights. Those privacy rights have been upheld and protected throughout our history. Most recently, the Supreme Court ruled in June 2018 that police must get a warrant before seizing sensitive
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Creating a Fairness Doctrine for the Internet Is a Really Bad Idea 0
- Front Page, Opinions, Tech Freedom
- June 20, 2019
Critics of America’s online discourse have heightened their objections to what they see as viewpoint bias, hate-mongering, what Bill Clinton once called “the politics of personal destruction,” and questionable content curation by social media companies. Should Social Media Be Regulated? Now some are making calls to impose government regulations to “solve” the problems they see.
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Remember the Good that Social Media has Achieved 0
- Front Page, Opinions, Tech Freedom
- June 19, 2019
By Alexandra Hudson It’s the popular and fashionable thing to do these days — on both the political Left and Right — to name, shame, and blame the social media giants for the death of American democracy. The Left, still smarting from Donald Trump’s stunning victory in 2016, emphasizes the way in which social media
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Jordan Peterson Launching New Free Speech Platform 0
- Front Page, Headline News, Tech Freedom
- June 13, 2019
Big news broke on Twitter Wednesday as Jordan Peterson announced that he has officially launched his new free-speech friendly platform called “Thinkspot.” Announcing Thinkspot: a new online communication platform (as promised post-Patreon): https://t.co/9Htj2t6aKA — Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) June 12, 2019 The new subscription-based platform was created as a response to Patreon and YouTube
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The Huawei Test 0
- Business, Foreign Policy, Front Page, Tech Freedom
- June 3, 2019
“Don’t solve problems.” So advised the late patriarch of management theory Peter Drucker. What could Drucker have meant? Problem-solving is the chief preoccupation and agenda of nearly all business managers and their companies. But when you “solve problems,” as Huawei’s leaders know, you tend to feed your failures, starve your strengths, and sink into costly
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