The comments really are something. Here’s one example:
“There are literal Nazis in the White House using Breitbart as their propaganda arm and this is all you’ll do? This is milquetoast.”
And another:
“Divest all business from Breitbart and back your words with actions.”
And another:
“This is not enough. Cease business with this cruel and slanderous white-nationalist propaganda site Breitbart, or find yourself complicit in the hate-mongering and its national consequences.”
And another:
“You need to cut your ties with #Breitbart. It’s business model has evolved to now appeal to and promote White Nationalist sentiment. Endless stories that race bait Blacks, are anti-LGBT, anti-brown skinned immigrant and anti-Muslim. I implore Disqus to take a stand against that.”
As an organization, Disqus firmly stands against hate speech in all forms.
It is unclear, but are they now going to BAN All College Students, Hollywood and Demonrats??
The latter two, are the most hateful, vile, racist people on the Planet you will ever meet.
Big Disqus user here (as opposed to FacePlant) but they are at the root of the problem. I fully expect them to cave to leftist pressure to throttle the voices of the right.
enjoy the wild west internet while you can. One of these days the usual suspects will sanitize it and it will be renamed the Doctor Professor Martin Luther the King Interwebs
The stupidest lefties in the world spam-post to Disquis.
As a company, we encourage our team to speak their minds respectfully and promote diversity of thought. ...
Recently, many passionate users have reached out to us regarding instances of hate speech across our network. Language that offends, threatens, or insults groups solely based on race, color, gender, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, or other traits is against our network terms and has no place on the Disqus network.
i.e. they are, in effect, telling you not to discuss any of those subjects. This contradicts the first paragraph.
PC is dead.
And I don’t use Disqus.
If they simply deleted every post where the F word was used, Disqus would not have any left wing posters. The vile posts that contain hate are almost universally directed towards conservatives.
Most of the hate speech epidemic nowadays comes from the media.
Hate speech, formerly known as ‘free speech.’
Wow, If they attempt to do that on a lot of sites I visit (e.g. weasel zippers for one) they will get a lot of push back, and I would venture that they will get dropped by some sites as a commentary tool.
Personally, I would applaud disqus going the way of the dodo. It is really a piece of crap platform, subject to outages, inconsistent performance, etc.
Consider this:
Censorship is a hate crime.
We as Americans have a god given right, protected by our constitution to be offensive and to insult any one we want. It is our right.
We as well have the right to be offended.
What NO ONE has, however is the right to censor or shut us up. That is actually a crime, and is an expression of hate and rejection of other ideas.
A very dangerous proposition that will lead to the horrible and oppressive conditions that we have now in Europe.
Too bad, what they call progressive ideas are actually pretty regressive, we are seeing now the seeds being planted for a future civil war in Europe. It is really sad.
So, Disqus will just become a boring, completely useless Comments page where moderate Leftists argue with hard line Leftists?
Disqus is a privately owned blog comment hosting service.
They charge like $100 a month for their service, and they completely dominate their little business niche.
They have no technology that cannot be worked around or improved.
This is an ideal business opportunity for a “Conservative” Disqus that does allow Conservatives and Leftists to co-mingle and to shout, curse, and libel each other.
I bet their “enforcement” will be all one-sided. They can even rationalize it bythe relative “sensitivity
of conservatives to Liberals. Liberals have heart palpitations and may have seizures triggered by anything rational that a conservative might say. A conservatives may raise a verbal eyebrow or even chuckle so anti conservative speech need not be censored but in deference to the fragile or compromised mental health of the liberal users, conservative speech should be blocked.
When Liberals say “hate speech” they mean “Conservative viewpoints.” Disqus is engaging in censorship.
OK...I have to let this sink in...I use DISQUS to comment on a number of sites because I don't do Facebook or other similar sites; no problem. I try to use it on Breitbart and it tells me that the site has blocked me from commenting, and that I should contact them with any complaints. Breitbart has not responded to a number of requests from me to be told what offense I committed. I did not post any differently on Breitbart than I do here or anywhere else. Any one else have this problem, or an idea of how I so greatly offended?
We should all be debating the merits of economic and philosophical ideas.
But both left and right stoop to ad hominem all too often.
When the left doesn’t like the ad hominem or the debate on the merits or the humor of Milo, the Left plays the victim card to shut down the offender. The left repeatedly notifies the moderator of being offended.
Conservatives try to play the victim card, victims of the media, etc. But Conservatives are not skilled at how to play the victim card and kick ass. It takes professional victims to win as victims.
This is the society we live in.