Posted on 02/26/2019 7:07:17 AM PST by gaijin
It's not a substitute for FreeRepublic --for me NOTHING will ever do that.
The Dissenter browser extension basically permits you to comment on websites that do not permit reader comments, or permits public commenting for those sites that previously permitted that but have discontinued the feature.
My understanding is that even YouTube is now seriously considering discontinuing all comments.
Because of all the deplatforming and shadow-banning I would also admonish Freepers to consider Gab.ai as a Twitter substitute, since a couple days of filtering will get you about the same level of craziness as FR (tolerable).
I got banned from twatter for insulting liberals. I got banned from Gab for insulting Nazis. It’s hard to tell which of them are worse.
Simply brilliant
The ability to comment about a website, but outside that site’s sphere of control.
I expect this will make a lot of site owners nervous, particularly some of the big dogs that like to control the narrative, not just within their site, but about them.
I’d also expect legal challenges. I can’t think of what grounds, but I’m sure they’ll come up with something.
I also predict exploitation.
I hope they gab/dissenter stays on top of how their product is being used. Look for people to program bots, and look for more organic (but still artificial) formation of groups that raid comment areas in order to influence perception about sites.
Any thoughts/observations on FreeZoxee.com? -https://friends.freezoxee.com/
I agree, Dissenter is a very threatening biz model.
I think it’s so threatening that swarms of media people and blue-haired pierced AntiFa types will day after day be flooding the zone with disjointed, extraneous cr*p in order to shift the discussion.
As they do at 4chan.
I just discovered that Starbucks’ wireless disallows 4chan, as does the supermarket chain, Lucky.
Meh, it was pretty insane there, anyway, but my great fear is that they’ll pull that with FreeRepublic, some day.
I would give it some time to see how it pans out, but a “side bet” that these tech giants can’t control might not be a bad idea. They are going to probably start to “detect” whether you have it or not and deny access to the sites, but if it catches on and becomes popular they would have to deny access to most of or maybe even all of their own customers. This would then become counter productive for them to do.
It’s been tried before. Will they stop cyberbullies on school web sites?
Do you have an extra invite code?
I don’t want to sign up on twitter again to follow their account to get a code.
So then it would go back to old school, where we had to use our own logic, reasoning, and discernment skills. I would like that much better myself than having only controlled one sided info. We still have the option to not pay any attention to those.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/feb/26/tommy-robinson-banned-from-facebook-and-instagram
FakeBook and Instagram have permanently banned Tommy Robinson for “hate speech”.
All I hear is Tommy asking for awareness of what muslims in the UK are doing to girls, and threatening.
When I hear him speak I hear all the same stuff I think and say.
I think what is happening to Tommy could happen to 70% of people on FreeRepublic, or even more.
Many years ago, I took a stab at reading YouTube comments, and was astonished at the level of abject stupidity. I kept sampling some for a period of time, and concluded that is the state of affairs there, and that people deliberately go out of their way to vie for the most inane and idiotic post in the comment section.
I found reading those comments to be utterly discouraging and corrosive to my view of people in general. I have often wondered if that feeling was akin to those developed by police who have to deal with the seamy side of humanity each and every day.
For me, comments on YouTube are the measuring stick about what is bad about allowing people unfettered outlet for their thoughts.
It is one of the reasons I enjoy Free Republic. Not everything people say here is wise, intelligent, witty, or even factual.
But to a large degree, you can express yourself (with some exceptions)
I have always enjoyed the relative lack of profanity here. We see an occasional cussword here and there, but nothing like what you see at some other sites.
Speaking the truth is, in many instances today, a "Hate Crime".
I had not heard about the Twitter deal access arrangement.
I logged of FreeZoxee. and saw the message about using Twitter to sign in. (I was kicked off Twitter about 4-5 months ago.)
I requested an invite code from FZ and will mail it to you on your FR acct if I can get one.
Ping.
Cool...Thank You!
"TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH" has been part of my tagline for a couple of years now.
The cussing has always been an issue for me even though I have exercised it myself in very serious and passionate situations that truly might warrant it. And sometimes there are indeed issues so grave that it might deserve it. But to use it all the time just lowers intelligence and integrity, one can argue or debate even very seriously without using foul language or derogatory terminology using the mind instead. To use it all the time is the sign of a lower IQ and a limited vocabulary. Intelligent people can cuss each other out without ever actually using any cuss words. :)
But as far as expressing objective and open ideology here on the FR? While it is getting more free in expression from when I first joined 3 years ago unfortunately there is still quite a bit of thought control and group think in the form of peer harassment and attempts to embarrass or intimidate. “You are not supposed to think like that here” is still prevalent here. There are still topics you cannot dare to have self expression about or you will be stoned to death. lol
But I don't like some of the pigpile behavior on some things which I see as a genuine difference of opinion on people who are otherwise conservative.
I don't like seeing it get personal, which happens needlessly.
As for profanity, I have been in a lifelong endeavor to reduce it, successfully for the most part. As a young man, I used to cuss indiscriminately. I came to see it as a sign of weakness and have tried to combat it in my own expression.
I don't mind a cussword here and there, especially if it can be sparingly used to make a point. And around here, that is largely the only way I see it used, which I appreciate.
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