Conservative sites now blocking comments?

1/14/2021 | Self

[mtrott]

Has anybody else found their comments on articles at conservative news sites being blocked since last week?

First it was BB that was blocking all my comments, with that "Hold on there, awaiting moderation" thing that comes up. Well, just now, a comment did post for me there. Maybe they have a bunch of key words that trigger the block. But none of my past comments was particularly incendiary or in any way advocated violence.

Then, today, DC blocked one of my comments on an article about a woman being charged over taking a teen out of the US for genital mutilation. I only said that I agreed that she should be charged for that, "but it is similarly child abuse to mutilate teens or give them puberty blocking drugs because they think they are, or should be, of the opposite sex."

I don't see what is so bad about that comment that it should be blocked. What have you seen?

[A Conservative Future]

hey drama queen, they’re NOT blocking you. You are not the center of the comment universe. They’re REVIEWING your comments. Even LAT and websites do that due to the nature of the climate nowadays and BB has the right to do that due to the many trolls who now go on the attack there. This must be the 20th Breitbart “they block my comments” crybaby thread in the past week..

Dude, why the hostility? Some folks aren't as internet savvy as you are, and the political internet is in a state of upheaval right now. Some folks are worried after things like Parler completely failing to secure their data and GPS tagging all their videos. You can explain what's happening without being a jerk about it.

mtrott, I think it is probably a combination of many factors, including the ones you mentioned and the ones people are mentioning here. I personally think that some sites may have tightened their moderation standards, since Amazon cited repeated failure to moderate violent speech as their reason for refusing to host Parler. It would not surprise me, for example, if Breitbart has started requiring comment moderation on all stories or for all users now, where in the past it was only certain users or certain topics that did so.

This is a textbook example of a "chilling effect". Just like George W. Bush and the Republicans after 9/11, liberals have successfully tamped down speech they don't like, overreaching in the name of "fighting terrorism" and suppressing real political speech (as in, not violent speech) by making an example of Parler. In doing so, they have gotten the rest of the social networks and content providers to "fall in line" with the new regime regarding conservative speech online.

[xkaydet65]

Also, what happened to Parler can and will happen to any open to the public site. Publish too much negative stuff about the Progs or positive stuff about Trump and it’s off to digital Limbo for you. The omly reason they are not coming after FR is because it is small in comparison to others and there are still likely more freepers than lurkers. By Breitbart is a major player so they will be disappeared if they publish stuff dangerous to the Progs.

[BipolarBob]

First it was BB that was blocking all my comments

I NEVER blocked you. Retract that libel you ninnyhammer.

[glimmerman70]

I don’t do FB but my wife said someone told her about a setting and when you go there it shows you how many people that are hired (I guess) by FB to watch and censor your page. She had 60 people watching her page, she has in the past posted a few things pro Trump or conservative. She blocked them. Her father is crazy left and he posts hateful stuff about Trump and occasionally gets a 1 day time out for fighting and saying racist things to other posters. He only had 15 people censoring his page. If anyone wants to know where to find the setting I will ask her other wise I don’t care because I don’t go on there.

[mtrott]

Okay, I take it all back!

[Kebbe]

You build a billion dollar company doing social media. As of now,one or a few slip ups of something objectionable, or maybe Antifa members join and pose initially as conservatives... then they post something and your business is POOF.

I recently read OUT of the NIGHT by Jan Valtin. I first read it in 1958. The book is from about 1940. Valtin was a communist propaganda agitator from about 1920 to 1936 in Germany and Western Europe. He actually worked the coastal shipping unions in the USA and South America as well as the Low countries. The anti capitalist/anti European government techniques then were certainly a pattern for today.

[mtrott]

Good comment, and good explanation for why so much more blocking since last week.

[NaturalScience]

This makes Gab’s new browser (Dissenter) more interesting! It allows comments on any URL — news, Wikipedia, Blogs, Amazon products, etc. Of course it’ll have to get a larger user base for comments to get visibility.

dissenter.com for more info (site is having performance issues right now, just like the rest of Gab).

[lowbridge]

“Why would Bridget Bardot block your comments?”

Because shes going steady with me.

Yeah, thats the ticket.

[PeterPrinciple]

They and other conservatives sites know the long knifes are out and don’t want to be de-platformed from their servers.

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Reminded me that during the Revolutionary war the British intercepted much of the postal system to identify sources and block certain messages.

What did our founders do in response?

[Midwesterner53]

I’ve seen the same thing at BB with my comments and seen others talking about it on the comments sections. Today mine were going on without that comment.

[Larry Lucido]

Exactly.

[mtrott]

My comment now shows up on the DC article. I guess some algorithm didn’t like a word or two.

[Baldwin77]

I don’t consider BB conservative. Never have. They are never-Trumpers.

[GardenerForLife]

I was a little shocked by BB. I was noticing that posts only had 1 or 2 comments on them. Then BB put my comments on hold too.

I seem to be ok now though. I posted this morning and everything went through as normal.

[Repeal The 17th]

“...it was BB that was blocking all my comments...”
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What is “BB”?

[daniel1212]

Disqus on www.breitbart.com does.

If I (today) paste a simple list of companies to suspend payments to or potentially cease doing business with due to these companies suspending or stopping political contributions, then it gets marked as spam. And if I just paste a working link to the list at https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3924867/posts?page=4 then it gets deleted. I have to post the link a freerepublic. com/focus/news/3924867/posts. Thus Disqus and or breitbart itself is engaging in censorship.

[daniel1212]

They’re REVIEWING your comments. Even LAT and websites do that due to the nature of the climate nowadays and BB has the right to do that due to the many trolls who now go on the attack there. This must be the 20th Breitbart “they block my comments” crybaby thread in the past week..

Actually Breitbart uses Disqus which often does a "pending" review block and then it never gets posted (although I can see its status in my Disqus accout, although multitudes have disappeared) as on Gateway Pundit (on the issue of WTH? — CDC Lists 26,557 Heart Attacks as COVID Deaths, Lists 7,919 Accidents and Poisonings as COVID Deaths):

Peace By Jesus a month ago

Pending

The large compilation of research is here : but which link Disqus will likely prevent others from seeing

Likewise,

Peace By Jesus 2 months ago

Pending

"more questions on the seriousness of the China virus," and more precisely, the serious lack of objectivity in so much hysteria COVID-19 reporting. More stats here: https://www.quora.com/Does-... and https://www.wayoflife.org/r...

But actually rather than heart attacks and accidents and poisonings being listed as COVID deaths, they are categorized as "Conditions contributing to deaths involving coronavirus disease," meaning they think such patients would have lived if they did not get Covid, yet this is presumption and there is motivation to assign deaths to Covid.

And in also see Fact check: Hospitals get paid more if patients listed as COVID-19, on ventilators, in which USA Today concludes :

Our ruling: True

We rate the claim that hospitals get paid more if patients are listed as COVID-19 and on ventilators as TRUE.

Hospitals and doctors do get paid more for Medicare patients diagnosed with COVID-19 or if it's considered presumed they have COVID-19 absent a laboratory-confirmed test, and three times more if the patients are placed on a ventilator to cover the cost of care and loss of business resulting from a shift in focus to treat COVID-19 cases.

But with over 295 network requests (over 350 if you scroll) even with ad blocking, thegatewaypundit.com needs a "mask."

Then there is this one which was removed:

Peace By Jesus 2 months ago

Removed

One fundamental manifestation of whether a person or site is liberal is how they respond to what the Bible teaches on the issue of homosexual relations, seeing as joining what God has placed sexually asunder is a fundamental perversion of the devil in seeking to create a perverse world in which he is implicitly given allegiance.

Over the years of my attempting to at least provide some balance in WP articles, then besides facing opposition in such attempts as including something negative about LBJ and Buttigieg, I have been met with such bias as deleting my reference to Robert A. J. Gagnon in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wi... article) as a "scholar" since despite his extensive resume (Pittsburgh Theological Seminary; Dartmouth College; Harvard Divinity School ;Princeton Theological Seminary, etc:. http://www.robgagnon.net/) I was informed that he could not be called a "scholar" since Pittsburgh Theological Seminary was biased.

And as regards this subject, just a look at the intro to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wi... article illustrates the commitment to liberal propaganda. Looking at the Talk sections of such articles reveals much.

[daniel1212]

Another thread.I Became Invisible to Others About One Month Ago on Disqus
Sitejabber ^ | 02/08/2018 | Brian Griffin

Posted on 2/8/2018, 5:27:18 PM by Brian Griffin ---------------------------------

And as for myself, after at least 7 years of posting on Disqus, with nothing vulgar, profane, conspiratorial, porno, etc. but instead typically substantiated argumentation, today the only comments left are 16, some from from 7 years ago and the rest from this year. Then it says, "That's the end." Unless Disqus suffered data loss, then i wonder if my loss is related to a long debate with a Mormon a few months ago or some homosexual activists, and Disqus took a broad brush to my comments.

wikipedia reports,

If Disqus shuts down, hundreds of millions of comments would be wiped away from a wide range of sites, since by the very nature of the service, comment content is not being managed locally by sites implementing the service....Disqus also injects untrusted and potentially dangerous third party advertising code into containing webpages.[40] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disqus