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.
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.
It’s been tried before. Will they stop cyberbullies on school web sites?