{"id":6767,"date":"2018-02-26T13:15:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T12:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6767"},"modified":"2018-02-26T13:17:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T12:17:29","slug":"why-doesnt-jordan-peterson-have-his-own-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/6767\/","title":{"rendered":"Why doesn’t Jordan Peterson have his own server?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reader William of Ockham<\/a> makes this remark in correspondence he probably thought was private:<\/p>\n

You do know they are going to get [Jordan] Peterson, right? There will be a moment where they provoke him to give an awful soundbite or find a past failure that is enough to discredit him.\u00a0He hints at this when people ask what keeps him up at night.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I agree that it’s only a matter of time before Peterson is hounded off YouTube, and probably Twitter and other social media platforms too. The question I have is why the hell is he still on there.<\/p>\n

I’m reasonably certain oil companies, for example, own the servers they host their websites on. If not, they’ll certainly have an agreement with a hosting company that won’t be torn up in the event some green lunatics decide to spam them with ten thousand emails demanding they cease to host the oil major’s site. An oil company’s IT infrastructure is probably expensive to maintain, but would be less for smaller companies. At some point, it would make sense to just outsource the lot rather than own the equipment. But I assume owning your own server and maintenance\/protection systems is possible even for individuals.<\/p>\n

So why doesn’t somebody like Peterson, who has 850k subscribers to his YouTube channel and 500k followers on Twitter, not set up a small company and buy the necessary IT equipment so he no longer stands the risk of being kicked off the internet? Okay, it might be possible for SJWs to hound the telecoms company or even the landlord of the premises into dropping Peterson, but that will only work in a few countries. If it comes down to it, why could Peterson not set up a small company in Russia and host his server from there? The Russians wouldn’t care what he’s saying, provided he sticks to attacking deranged feminists in the west and not Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n

It might be Peterson doesn’t have the money, but he’s the No.1 seller on Amazon so he can’t be flat broke. How much would it cost to be independent? $10k? More? He could sell his books from his site, post his videos, and do whatever he wants and not have to lie awake at night waiting for the day when YouTube suddenly block his account. It doesn’t make sense for everyone to take such precautions of course, but for someone like Peterson? It seems sensible, yet he doesn’t do it. Anyone know why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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