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Business Insider drops comments from articles
Talking Biz News ^ | November 8, 2016 | Chris Roush

Posted on 11/16/2016 9:41:55 PM PST by Gen-X-Dad

Business Insider has joined other websites in dropping the comments function at the end of its articles. "Over time the value of our comments section has diminished, with a small but outspoken group increasingly resorting to name-calling and worse."


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: businessinsider; censorship; commentssection; election; liberalmedia; media; news
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Jeff Bezos owned news site jumps on the censorship wagon. The corporate media types have decided their next move.
1 posted on 11/16/2016 9:41:55 PM PST by Gen-X-Dad
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To: Gen-X-Dad

pussies. It wasn’t a small group. It was a hugely growing group of people sick of their lies and BS


2 posted on 11/16/2016 9:45:58 PM PST by pissant ((Deport 'em all))
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To: Gen-X-Dad

Most “news” sites, the comment section is the only thing worth visiting.

If you want hits, removing the comment section is the last thing you want to do


3 posted on 11/16/2016 9:46:20 PM PST by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: Gen-X-Dad

Yahoo has essentially done the same. Despite the heavy left wing bias and slant of these sites, the comments by intelligent readers would decimate the faulty arguments and factual inaccuracies. It got so bad on pro Hillary Yahoo that Yahoo essentially dismantled its comment section five days before the election.


4 posted on 11/16/2016 9:46:45 PM PST by allendale
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To: Gen-X-Dad

BI is a Liberal rag.


5 posted on 11/16/2016 9:47:01 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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They banned me long time ago.....LOL.

Truth can’t be said....it makes people “think” too much.

Censorship is the key to totalitarianism (One Mind group-think). That is why Marxist PC and Hate Speech were instituted (both unconstitutional)-—so that they can control “ideas” (the Mind of the Masses).

He who controls the Words can control minds easily.....and the Leftists used to have total control of MSM before the internet FOILED their plans of total takeover (and we JUST MISSED being COMPLETELY wiped off the face of the earth). With Trump we have a chance, at least. We will see.


6 posted on 11/16/2016 9:47:40 PM PST by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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They were pro Hillary down to the kneepads, the commenters often ridiculed and dismissed their writers for being so in the tank for her and blatantly anti-Trump. Looks like they needed a safe space from the public they supposedly are informing. I never thought I would see this type of blatant propaganda and censorship in my lifetime.


7 posted on 11/16/2016 9:49:32 PM PST by Gen-X-Dad
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They are blacklisting conservative websites. We can do the same. Make sure to remember never to visit their website under any circumstances.


8 posted on 11/16/2016 9:55:20 PM PST by Luke21
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To: Gen-X-Dad

They are attempting censorship and turning into Pravda. Seek alternate sites such as Gab.ai and info galactic for wikipedia, and use the Brave browser. DuckDuckGo for Google. And so on.


9 posted on 11/16/2016 10:02:21 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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Is that what they call “denial of service”?


10 posted on 11/16/2016 10:02:49 PM PST by Yollopoliuhqui (Smarter - Faster)
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To: Gen-X-Dad

Free speech! Free speech!

(Fast-talking radio guy disclaimer) “FreespeechnotvalidforRepublicansorconservatives”


11 posted on 11/16/2016 10:05:07 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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the Leftists used to have total control of MSM before the internet FOILED their plans of total takeover

Absolutely right. They failed to see the power of the internet that allowed us to share information outside of their control. We educated ourselves and are now opening the eyes of more and more people every day. Got to close those comment sections quickly before even more people wake up.

Their failure to get our guns back in the 1990's also put a crimp in their plans for our enslavement. If Billy-boy Clinton had controlled his urges and run his Presidency like a well oiled machine they could have expanded on the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban and gotten our guns (through registration, onerous taxes and required insurance) BEFORE the internet hit full stride and woke people up to their evil plans. They were sooo close but now they're running out of time and they know they'll have a fight on their hands if they try to either shut down the net or take our guns. We dodged a bullet. May they be not so lucky.
12 posted on 11/16/2016 10:16:06 PM PST by Garth Tater (What's mine is mine.)
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I got a kick out of reading yahoo comments on their pro Hillary articles, almost every comment was anti Hillary or pro Trump. Then I really new Hillary was finished, she had almost no public support even on leftist news sites.


13 posted on 11/16/2016 10:24:18 PM PST by Rufus Shinra (Trump is the last best hope for our country. Independence vs. Globalism.)
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To: Gen-X-Dad

More than half the reason why I’ll click on a story is to read the comments. This will last until they notice the loss of clicks.
No one wants to read propaganda w/o due commenting.


14 posted on 11/16/2016 10:30:48 PM PST by GreatRoad
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To: Gen-X-Dad

BI blows. Always has.


15 posted on 11/16/2016 10:32:34 PM PST by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: Gen-X-Dad

I clicked a few links to their articles a while ago. It didn’t take very long to realize what kind of outfit Business Insider is. Haven’t been back and won’t click on any links to their site again. If a site does not allow comments, you know it’s a leftist propaganda mill and nothing more.


16 posted on 11/16/2016 10:36:26 PM PST by Trod Upon (Government employees and welfare recipients are both net tax consumers. Often for life.)
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Funny, I go right to the comments to find out the real story. Sounds more like internet giants censoring the truth.


17 posted on 11/16/2016 10:42:22 PM PST by RedWulf (Trump:Front Lines. Obama: Back Nine. Hillary:Nap Time.)
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We should start linking archived versions of stories on FR, whenever they’re from these kinds of outlets using archive.is imo.

There’s seriously no point in giving these places hits...


18 posted on 11/16/2016 10:44:10 PM PST by Voluntaryist
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I have a mental list of sites that don’t allow comments: I never click on those sites.


19 posted on 11/16/2016 11:01:41 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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So Bezos owns BI as well as Washington Post

Seems to me a time to boycot Amazon.

20 posted on 11/16/2016 11:05:35 PM PST by spokeshave (In the Thatch Weave,..Trump's Wing Man is Truth.)
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