“So rather than hide behind dirty implications and slippery interpretations, maybe you should answer your own question: Why would Sam Harris or Joe Rogan or even Steven Crowder use Thinkspot over alternatives? I’m dying to know what’s left for you to imply here..”
Alright, I’ll “answer my own question,” spelling it out as plainly and briefly as possible. The basic assumption economists use—there are good critiques of this but let’s assume it’s true for the sake of argument—is that people are rational actors who seek to maximize benefit and minimize cost.
Let’s take the one person I listed, Steven Crowder, who is held up as the “canary in the coal mine” for why a platform like Thinkspot needs to exist. He had his videos demonetized mainly because he was selling a shirt that said “Socialism is for f*gs” on it. Youtube said they would restore his monetization if he removed the shirt.
He did. They did.
He has 4 million+ subscribers on Youtube and makes a considerable amount of income off his channel. Why would he go to a niche site like Thinkspot, where he’ll never have a chance to build a following even remotely that size? It’s an acceptable risk for him to remain on Youtube even if its policies are more restrictive.
Youtube only removed Alex Jones after he repeatedly used the platform to incite harassment against the parents of Sandy Hook victims.
I’m not going to pretend that any social media company is a great arbiter of what should and shouldn’t be online, but I agree with the idea of a content policy however poorly and unevenly enforced.
Why do people prefer Twitter over Gab? Reddit over Voat?
The other that you cited Meghan Murphy wasn’t kicked off for just that one tweet you mentioned. It was a pattern of harassing behavior. If she were just kicked off merely for expressing an unpopular “politically incorrect” opinion, then why is David Duke still on the platform?
As I said to others who have made the same basic argument, no one wants Thinkspot—they want a Twitter/Patreon/Youtube that they can never get kicked off from for any reason, and Jordan Peterson can’t deliver that for them for reasons I plainly laid out.
The only reason I mention white nationalists/Nazis/etc. is because they are the group in most need a social media service they can never be banned from. The IDW doesn’t need this service because they do just fine on other platforms and there really isn’t a credible risk that they’ll ever get kicked off.
If you’d prefer to just block me and avoid the hard facts, I could not blame you.
Nah, I’m good. You want me to block you because all of you Petersonites share your leader’s persecution complex. You all think you’re Prometheus being punished for the truth, when you’re really just a bunch of pseudointellectuals who think pulling an F. Scott Fitzgerald line from Bartlett’s Quotations will somehow convince people you’re well read.
I’d rather leave you unblocked, so that your bad opinions remain visible to remind my readers what sort of mediocrities Peterson attracts. I have quite a collection.
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