[rlmorel]

"...one thing has remained consistently problematic: comments posted under articles or blogs (or “below the line” in internet-speak)..."

Well. We now acknowledge THAT is a problem, while we are on that slippery slope, we could re-word that to get to the heart of the matter:

"...one thing has remained consistently problematic: comments spoken or thought by people in discourse with others..."

Or to boil it down further:

"...one thing has remained consistently problematic: the private thoughts one is thinking, or is suspected of thinking..."

[shove_it]

Orwell’s 1984 was required reading in Lit 101 in the 1950s. It’s probably banned from the library now.

http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/153313-nineteen-eighty-four