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What is Jordan Peterson's new anti-censorship website like? | John Semley

The ‘intellectual dark web’ site, called Thinkspot, turns out to be little more than totally superfluous – and expensive
Jordan Peterson in Toronto. ‘He has proved particularly adept at exploiting crises in free expression where none actually exist.’ Photograph: Rene Johnston/Toronto Star/Getty

Search “free speech” on – the new social media platform devised by , vociferous foe of and – and you’ll find there, among the results: “The Ten Commandments of Free Speech and Free Thought”, by Skepticmagazine founder Michael Shermer, a podcast titled “Free Speech Not Islamist Speech” by ex-Canadian naval intelligence officer Tom Quiggin, and several video lectures with titles like “Count Dankula on Free Speech,” “What Its [sic] Like to Be A Free Speech Warriors [sic]” and “Banned Lecture: Ethics and Free Speech”, that last

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