Posted on 12/26/2013 8:38:09 AM PST by DJ MacWoW
NEW YORK (AP) - Mix blatant bigotry with poor spelling. Add a dash of ALL CAPS. Top it off with a violent threat. And there you have it: A recipe for the worst of online comments, scourge of the Internet.
Blame anonymity, blame politicians, blame human nature. But a growing number of websites are reining in the Wild West of online commentary. Companies including Google and the Huffington Post are trying everything from deploying moderators to forcing people to use their real names in order to restore civil discourse. Some sites, such as Popular Science, are banning comments altogether.
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We control things here ... they control things there. The only difference is the rules that each use and the “political philosophy” that each uses to maintain that order.
Once a person realizes that ... they will get along a whole lot better on different forums.
Agreed
Also includes quoting the Apostle Paul. Poor old Phil didn't realize that Paul, formerly Saul of Tarsus, was on the list for his epistles to be burned. First and Second Corinthians are particularly verboten.
And when Paul, in 2 Thessalonians 3:10 mentions that if any would not work, neither let him eat, the hate speech crowd goes wild.
You live in fear. The threat of internet “threats” and “profanity” is overblown BY FAR. The execution of that policy is used to enforce leftist orthodoxy and little else. One only needs to see the venom and profanity spewed out against Chick Fil A, Phil Robertson, Sarah Palin, etc etc to know that the policy is a political tool used to benefit one side.
It has to do with free speech because it is a political tool. Pretending otherwise is about like pretending ACORN is a non partisan community organization. On paper, legally, sure. On the ground, in reality, not so much.
That is why we resist, and why the internet is FAR better as the wild west, with no limits whatsoever.
It means to be careful what information you post. We have FReepers from all walks of life and sometimes info is given that shouldn’t be. FR is also read by many people. It’s monitored by the left.
Interesting that the only example of an inappropriate post they could come up with was from a supposed right-winger.
Their purported point would have been made much more effectively by providing one from each side of the divide. But of course they aren't really trying to make a point about incivility on the web, their true point is to silence conservative responses, civil and uncivil. This is done by progressively classifying more and more conservative ideas as themselves uncivil and therefore prohibited.
Without a clear set of written down rules ... It is often a guessing game. But even so ... rules covering every single circumstance can’t all be written down - THEREFORE - in the end, it’s totally up to the owner of a forum and his admins. Their actions are final, no matter what the rules say.
That’s why people are going about it all the wrong way, when they try to claim their “free speech rights” ... on a forum. I just laugh when I see that.
And that’s the reality for ALL FORUMS ... Free Republic included.
I saw that too and laughed. They made it very obvious what their goal is.
” We have FReepers from all walks of life and sometimes info is given that shouldn’t be. “
Amen to that!
You’ll never be able to legally maintain Constitutional Free Speech on any Internet Forum. You can’t even insist or maintain Constitutional Free Speech on this forum of Free Republic.
There simply is NO SUCH THING on any Internet forum. Free Speech does not have any legal imperative or sway on any forum.
Amen is right!
“And secondly there is absolutely no allowance of illegal threats to anyone, no matter who it is”
Straw man argument. Threats are not legal anywhere, so call the police. On the other hand rudeness is. Yet, on websites, everyone gets a case of the fainting vapors when someone says something that might be menacing. They act like it must be prevented and stopped at all costs.
Its immature. One person 800 miles away makes a comment to someone they couldn’t possibly locate and harm, but everyone in the grievance industry acts like its the same as a person threatening to kill a neighbor.
Its almost always hyperbole, someone saying something along the lines of, “in the French revolution they guillotined traitors like you. In the future American revolution you might get a free trip to the Place De La Concorde in a donkey cart. Watch your neck!”
Instantly the nervous nellies begin running around waving their arms in the air,,
“look moderator, right there! Threats of violence!! Save us!!”
Its really kind of funny.
Like nationalism, on an internet scale. Here at FR we have a culture, language, history.
And we have borders (in the form of a URL) and we enforce them too!
It works on the marketplace of ideas, per our US Comstitution, but it does not work on any (each and every) Internet forum that exists, including this one.
The idea here is that every Internet forum controls what is allowed and not allowed. If someone doesn’t like this or that forum ... then they have the legal right and capability to set up a new forum with their own new set of rules and discuss anything that is legally allowed by the US Constitution.
It’s from the many different forums and their differing allowed topics - in which you get what you’re talking about - which the US Constitution supports. You don’t get that WITHIN ANY ONE FORUM.
“Without the comments, how will I learn the facts deliberately omitted by the authors of many “news” articles, such as the race of a suspect?”
Well, you won’t be able to learn those things. But there is an upside. You also won’t be exposed to the seamy side of free speech. You won’t risk exposure to rude people, threats attached to some future dystopian revolutionary era, and worst of all,,,yes, those DREADED capital letters.
When I lived in Tennessee, I only heard the 'f' word once, and that was because the Vols quarterback threw an interception late in an important game. All I have to do in Red England is step outside, and I can hear the foulest language imaginable coming from every direction, and that's just the kids. (I think they got it from David Ortiz.) The adults are much worse.
And, you see ... that’s legitimate ... because Internet forums are NOT LEGALLY REQUIRED to abide by Constitutional Free Speech.
You may disagree with the philosophy and political position of different forums, but you can’t complain about their CONTROL over their own forum - because we also legitimately control the speech here,
“****ing shut the **** up, you **** **** **** ********er or I will **** you hard. “
As usual, your rapier wit deftly stabs into the very heart of the issue. Hats off to Laz, no other response can top yours.
The lefty sites don’t care about controlling profanity. They want to control content under the guise of protecting posters.
One poster on Yahoo News comments section has been using gay porno photos for his avatar for over a year. Funny how Yahoo doesn’t ‘Ban’ him.
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