Posted on 03/31/2022 4:21:24 AM PDT by fwdude
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It’s not only left-wing websights. I pretty much stopped going to The Federalist and American Thinker when they dropped their comments.
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I suspect many of those websites that have eliminated the reader comment sections are doing so because they’re embarrassed to see that their readers are more intelligent and capable than their paid staff.
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I preferred...The Swhill.
Gonna miss their comment section....
A lot of local sites eliminated comments leading up to the 2016 election, as the comments usually shattered the narratives put forth by our oligarchs. In many cases, the comments presented the truth, and that wouldn’t be tolerated. Combined with the control of social media and sites such as YouTube, there was a near-total lockdown on opposing views - so the outcome of 2020 (a stolen election with a news blackout concealing it) was a foregone conclusion.
Those who have seized our country have done so with impunity; this nonsense about pregnant “men”, racial division, etc. is just a diversion - a successful one.
Castrations will continue until morale improves.
When I was working in Public Affairs in a now defunct manufacturing company, we watched the comments under the Finance tab of Yahoo News. That’s where shareholders and employees alike could sound off without fear of retaliation. Very revealing and prescient.
IOW, the comments are not going the way they like so they are going to censor them.
Exactly right; while comments are assumed to be opinions, there were a lot of unvarnished truths there (facts) - so they had to be shut down.
To be fair, those mostly conservative websites were threatened by leftist advertisers and web hosters to remove comments at the risk of being cancelled completely, FascistBook-style.
I hadn’t noticed that Lifson moved the comments section to subscription only for even viewing (I just checked).
I recall him posting an explanation for the move to a different comment system a year or 2 ago, but it was still public and can’t recall the problems the original comment format posed for the site.
Very odd.
Yes, but they caved instead of resisting.
American Greatness still has comments, and so do other great websites.
Victor Davis Hanson’s latest, with comments:
https://amgreatness.com/2022/03/30/history-should-be-our-guide-in-ukraine/
Pretty much. The sHill used to be almost wholly infested with leftist drones spewing their fiction-reality. But especially since the 2020 election, conservatives have made significant inroads in the comments, with referenced links to verifiable facts, especially facts about the election steal. The left couldn't handle it, so here we are.
I always found it humorous when Yahoo would shut down a discussion thread on an article when conservative commenters started making too much sense. Sometimes after only a day.
They caved, or they’d go away. At least they can still get their content out there unrestricted - for now, anyway.
I've called out several of them on outright lies, and to their embarrassment, they later corrected them.
That’s the end of my visiting The Hill.
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