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Tue Jun 23, 2015, 01:12 PM Jun 2015

New Social Media Platform Dubbed “The People’s Site” by Anonymous

June 23, 2015 by True Activist

(ANTIMEDIA) Facebook may have finally met its match. By directly targeting the social media behemoth’s lack of messaging encryption, infamously opaque algorithms, and government and advertiser accessibility, Minds.com has earned the attention of privacy advocates, activists, and frustrated Facebook users—and has even garnered active support from Anonymous. By employing many similar features found on Facebook and other social media giants, Minds gives its users a familiar platform without the numerous privacy concerns plaguing the long-established sites.

Users will find the typical status updates, comments, and link-sharing as other social media, but Minds takes the government’s eyes out of the equation by encrypting private messages and using open-source code that any programmer can check. The platform uses a “reward’ system based on points to earn “views” for posts, so the more active you are, the more the network will promote your posts—-without hindrance from advertisers and profit models.

“For every mobile vote, comment, remind, swipe & upload you earn points which can be exchanged for views on posts of your choice. It’s a new web paradigm that gives everyone a voice,” explains the website.

Minds.com founder Bill Ottman told Business Insider, “Our stance is the users deserve the control of social media in every sense.”


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New Social Media Platform Dubbed “The People’s Site” by Anonymous (Original Post) polly7 Jun 2015 OP
At any moment they can decide to change the privacy policy to be intrusive. nt Lucky Luciano Jun 2015 #1
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