This has nothing to do with the First Amendment. This is a private propaganda medium maintaining control over its output.
abc is just looking out for their presidential candidate.
It’s their website so their judgement, it’s not censorship.
Doesn’t change the fact that they’re assholes though.
Posting on a ABC site is like writing on a outhouse wall. Someone comes in and throws lime on it.
Several of my posts at mybarackobama.com were “Deleted in the interest of free speech.”
My advice to you is; walk away from them and leave them to fester. Spend your time and energy supporting conservative sites, or start your own site.
A bunch of us were so disgusted with the psycho liberals on the discussion board our local TV, so we started our own board. In one year we had well over 10,000 posts, and many members and the local TV station (nbc seattle) shut down it’s forum. YAY!!!
you’ll never get anywhere when the ghouls are in the mix, or in charge of the controls.
>> So much for first amendment rights.
It’s their option to delete your comments, and it’s not a violation of your free speech. It may be unfair, however,
It would be worth doing a little reporting by having people make similar comments, but with different names as taegets and then record the results.
yesterday my husband was posting a comment on the Des Moines Register website and his post was AUTOMATICALLY rejected because of a word that needed to be changed... and I’m serious about this, the word that was questionable/disallowed was “bags”... bags? “bags of cans” somehow sent up a red flag, literally.
what is wrong with US????
You are seriously and sadly mistaken if you think that your First Amendment rights extend to a private enterprise.
They can censor you till the cows come home, but at the end of the day, they have not affected your First Amendment rights at all.
If you know that they are censoring your views, avoid them. The best way to hurt a media source is by avoiding their product.
Ignore them and watch/read/view outlets that respect your views.
bttt
I had this happen earlier this year - before I gave up. They would delete me right away and there’s no way to complain. I never said anything vulgar either.
This was at Jake Tapper’s Political Punch site.
ABC News blogs are further left than Pravda or Mao’s Little Red Book.
Don’t worry about it. By doing so they are preaching to the choir.
The decision to delete your posts is probably being made by someone barely out of school acting on his own. If you can find the right snail mail addressee and send a polite letter, you might get the situation corrected.
“ABC is in the tank for the Big O.”
I’m shocked, shocked! I tell you I’m shocked!
I have had the same experience there as well as at the CBS site.
That’s ok... ABC is just pissed it’s on its way to the ash heap of history.