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I think this will lead to outcome that few people cheering for this are anticipating. Musk, Thiel etc. will back an alternative platform that will host JRE, Lex
by qaq 5y ago
I think this will lead to outcome that few people cheering for this are anticipating. Musk, Thiel etc. will back an alternative platform that will host JRE, Lex, Jordan Peterson etc. and in the long term it will win due to being less restrictive. Which in the long term is prob a positive thing.
- TOMDM 5y agoMan, I'm not a huge Lex fan, but are we really going to lump him in with Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson? This also speaks to me of a solution in search of a problem. You know what's really non restrictive? Distributing MP3s via RSS.
- 0des 5y agoHe owes his recent popularity to the reach of Joe rogans platform. Let's not be coy.
- namelessoracle 5y agoUntil AWS declares you cant host that mp3 via RSS and sites that do get pushed to tor.
- dehrmann 5y agoThis is where "private company" arguments start to fall apart when it comes to free speech because at some point, you need hosting or a network connection.
- Talanes 5y agoYeah, there's a big difference between "We don't want to host your content on our public-facing platform" and "We don't want to sell you digital infrastructure." I'm all for the right to control how you present to the public, even if you are Twitter.com, but locking groups of people out of commerce just feels sinister.
- namelessoracle 5y agoFor the less technologically literate twitter/youtube/facebook ARE infrastructure.
- Talanes 5y agoPolitical yard signs have an outsized effect on certain demographics too, but should that mean that once you start putting up yard signs you have to put up all yard signs?
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- qaq 5y agoI am not "lumping" Rogan and Lex :) Rogan, Lex and Musk are friends, Lex often talks about desire of creating an alternative platform, Musk actually replied on Twitter at some point that he is thinking of funding an alternative platform. I bet Chamath Palihapitiya and David Sacks would gladly pile on the funding.
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- Acrobatic_Road 5y agoI want to see Elon Musk put his $$$ toward alternative solutions. He's the richest guy in the world. Come on Elon!
- zuminator 5y agoRogan was already on less restrictive platforms, which was why those episodes were available to begin with. He chose to go on a potentially more restrictive site, in exchange for an immensely lucrative contract. I'm sure if someone offered Samuel L. Jackson $100 million to host a children's show (yes, I know) he would quite willingly hold his famously coarse tongue. Also even if your prediction is correct, that's "less" restrictive, and still not completely open. There will always be rules because whoever's paying for the service, whether it be advertisers, subscribers, or billionaires, has a list of things they really don't want to hear.
- philistine 5y agoKeep waiting for a saviour billionaire to align with your views and you'll end up disappointed, again and again.
- qaq 5y agoAfter living first part of my life in USSR I would prefer a dominant platform to be with minimal restrictions. Large platforms need capital so billionaire or crowdfunding or some crypto project or whatever else eventually this demand for least restrictive platform to exist will be met by some project.
- coolspot 5y agoSounds like BlazeTV
- misiti3780 5y agoI completely agree, and I really hope it happens.