Dissenter is a new browser extension that allows people to comment anywhere on the Internet by adding a comment section associated with any URL. This is a great idea, IMO. For example if a YouTube video has its comment section disabled, it will allow people to comment on it anyways through Dissenter's browser extension. Only downside is that it requires a Gab account, they should allow people to sign in with other accounts, IMO, such as with Wordpress, Google or Facebook plugin. Anyways, if you're interested they have a website where you can add the Dissenter extension to your browser. I got mine from Google Chrome Store (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dissenter-extension/gdmekeodmghijamlkjcfpigdcdmcllbo?hl=en). It's free.
https://www.dissenter.com/
What do you think? A win for Free Speech? Or is it, like VICE, Vox, Kiwifarms et. al say that it's a 'safe space' harboring far-right speech? I personally think that it is something that has the potential to be great because it circumvents censorship. We will see if the tech giants as Silicon Valley try to shut it down like they did (unsuccessfully) with SubscribeStar.
That's an advertisement. Delete it Admins... I hereby report it...
Quote from: Cavebear on March 01, 2019, 10:22:04 AM
That's an advertisement. Delete it Admins... I hereby report it...
What's your problem?
Quote from: Sal1981 on March 01, 2019, 10:39:58 AM
What's your problem?
he's a bear that lives in a cave, he only comes up from his hibernation cycle once every few weeks.
Knowing internet culture, I'm very much prone to agree that it's going to be mostly a shit show rather than something useful.
I just don't see one side of the spectrum being all that interested in something like this, so it's just going to be another echo chamber for hateful and bigoted individuals to lurk in.
To put it another way, people with something positive to say aren't going to take the time to get involved with this, so it's literally going to be a "conversation" with no dissenting opinions or rebuttals.
It's a good idea in theory, but dissenting ideas should be shared to spark conversation and spur change... not to only fire up people in an environment with no real challenging of your own ideas.
Without bigots and hateful people, there are no people. Sorry to tell you, but there it is ;-)
It may be just another way for Russia to hack our brains.
Quote from: Unbeliever on March 01, 2019, 01:13:21 PM
It may be just another way for Russia to hack our brains.
As a double agent, you must be working for Putin too.
Quote from: Munch on March 01, 2019, 11:25:13 AM
he's a bear that lives in a cave, he only comes up from his hibernation cycle once every few weeks.
I'm here a lot more often than you think...
Quote from: Cavebear on March 01, 2019, 01:28:32 PM
I hate advertisements...
yet there were none. I'm also still boggled by this washington post thing you say you can't view when theres no issue for others to see it without paying.
Quote from: Munch on March 01, 2019, 03:01:38 PM
yet there were none. I'm also still boggled by this washington post thing you say you can't view when theres no issue for others to see it without paying.
1. Testing the waters. My definition of "advertising" is broad.
2. They want sign up and info to view. That's a cost. And they ask for money from me. Maybe because I subscribe to the newspaper they figure they can get more.
Or they changed recently and I don't know that?
I for one think we could try to eliminate all comment sections and see if the world starts to crumble.
Quote from: aitm on March 02, 2019, 08:09:55 AM
I for one think we could try to eliminate all comment sections and see if the world starts to crumble.
lol, people would have to go outside of the comforts of their homes to even encounter other people with differing opinions. Reminds me of not taking anything for granted, like being able communicate freely over an Internet forum.
Quote from: aitm on March 02, 2019, 08:09:55 AM
I for one think we could try to eliminate all comment sections and see if the world starts to crumble.
How about AOC death squads? Anyone AOC designates as "hate" gets rubbed out by the Chinese orbiting death ray?
Quote from: Baruch on March 02, 2019, 09:52:43 AM
How about AOC death squads? Anyone AOC designates as "hate" gets rubbed out by the Chinese orbiting death ray?
Or even the BWA? We could essentially use PDM's to scrub out TMA's on the net thus essentially saving the world from DFBS.
Quote from: Baruch on March 02, 2019, 09:52:43 AM
How about AOC death squads? Anyone AOC designates as "hate" gets rubbed out by the Chinese orbiting death ray?
How about Obama-care death panels? Are we all dead yet?
Quote from: Unbeliever on March 02, 2019, 02:12:10 PM
How about Obama-care death panels? Are we all dead yet?
My brothers ex-wife's third cousin's step sisters high school boy friend was personally executed by that muslim Obammy.....summabitch.
Quote from: aitm on March 02, 2019, 02:06:47 PM
Or even the BWA? We could essentially use PDM's to scrub out TMA's on the net thus essentially saving the world from DFBS.
How about only aitm can comment on any threads, because somehow aitm is the most deserving of oppressed in the virtue signaling Olympics?
Quote from: Unbeliever on March 02, 2019, 02:12:10 PM
How about Obama-care death panels? Are we all dead yet?
Not nearly dead enough. Move to France, eat one of +200 cheeses. Name new political party "Les Fondue".
Clear now, Obama directed his own version of the Nixon Plumbers. But if a Democrat does it, "no true Nixon".
Quote from: aitm on March 02, 2019, 08:09:55 AM
I for one think we could try to eliminate all comment sections and see if the world starts to crumble.
Like this one?
Quote from: Sal1981 on March 02, 2019, 08:43:12 AM
lol, people would have to go outside of the comforts of their homes to even encounter other people with differing opinions. Reminds me of not taking anything for granted, like being able communicate freely over an Internet forum.
Wait, you are proposing that we all actually TALK TO OUR NEIGHBORS? Why? I have no connection to them. In fact, they are BARELY SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT from ME! What a shocking thought... Are you a Communitarian or something?
Quote from: Cavebear on March 04, 2019, 12:56:40 AM
Wait, you are proposing that we all actually TALK TO OUR NEIGHBORS? Why? I have no connection to them. In fact, they are BARELY SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT from ME! What a shocking thought... Are you a Communitarian or something?
I look forward to cheap medicine when Doc comes round with his horse, buggy and little black bag.
Quote from: Baruch on March 04, 2019, 05:19:01 AM
I look forward to cheap medicine when Doc comes round with his horse, buggy and little black bag.
You missed the point... Though Doc is probably a good person...
Quote from: Cavebear on March 04, 2019, 06:38:48 AM
You missed the point... Though Doc is probably a good person...
My neighbors are Civil War plotting Socialist traitors? Why would I talk to them?
Quote from: Baruch on March 04, 2019, 12:34:13 PM
My neighbors are Civil War plotting Socialist traitors? Why would I talk to them?
Because they might bring beneficial new ideas. England, for example did not produce a single domesticated food crop or domesticated animal of its own. Yet they thrived when wheat, corn, sheep, cows, and horses arrived. QED.
Quote from: Cavebear on March 07, 2019, 07:05:56 AM
Because they might bring beneficial new ideas. England, for example did not produce a single domesticated food crop or domesticated animal of its own. Yet they thrived when wheat, corn, sheep, cows, and horses arrived. QED.
We can get all we need off the Internet now. Viking tourists aren't necessary.
Quote from: Baruch on March 07, 2019, 07:07:05 AM
We can get all we need off the Internet now. Viking tourists aren't necessary.
It was the French who brought those things to Briton. We blow our noses, Arabian-style, in your general direction...
Quote from: Cavebear on March 07, 2019, 05:13:10 PM
It was the French who brought those things to Briton. We blow our noses, Arabian-style, in your general direction...
I am descended from Norman knights too, but in France back then, it was pronounced "Kniks" which wasn't a sports team, but meant thug. Basically enforcers for the local French organized crime (aristocracy). That is still the way Macron runs things.