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American Thinker ^ | 1/14/21 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 01/14/2021 5:32:44 AM PST by Renkluaf

It is news to almost nobody who reads American Thinker that a political witch hunt is underway. Parties in and out of government are looking for excuses to suppress and destroy voices that oppose the left.

Because AT lacks the ability to monitor comments in real time, and because our position that comments are a forum, not something that we publish, is being called into question, we can no longer publish comments.

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To: Renkluaf

What and othe sites need to do is work with someone they know from the comments section, set up a DISQUS enabled comment platform and just put the URL to the completely independent comment site up on the AT site as a referral.

That’s how I ended up being the main moderator at www.scottadamsfans.com

For a while, when DISQUS still had free channels, I was the owner of NPR comment section , because I moved fastest when theys shut down their own comments. It was hillarious to watch libtards struggle with conservative moderation.


61 posted on 01/14/2021 1:11:07 PM PST by Kevmo (I'm in a slow motion Red Dawn reality TV show. The tree of liberty is thirsty.)
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To: Alberta's Child

agree, the day yahoo did it I was so mad because even though the article at yahoo was totally liberal in content, the comments at yahoo were the complete opposite. Just by the comments you knew Trump was going to win the election. I think that is why Yahoo shut the comments down several months before the election this time. They knew based on those comments people were beginning to ban together and feel and think the same way about him.


62 posted on 01/14/2021 1:49:15 PM PST by terart
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To: Alberta's Child
Your Gannett newsrag isn't doing themselves any favors there.

There were at least four articles published in today's paper to which I'd like to respond, in a timely manner. But they'll only accept one letter to the editor per month from the same individual. So I have to pick and choose which of equally important topics to address.

63 posted on 01/15/2021 11:34:24 AM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: FreedomPoster

I go back to BBS on Commodore 64 days. When we went to 1200 baud and then 2400, we were over the moon! I could do great things with DOS, had my own little BBS, we had a blast back then. Another lifetime. 1980’s, 90’s...


64 posted on 01/15/2021 11:44:03 AM PST by SE Mom (Screaming Eagle mom)
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To: Kevmo

Look into the Dissenter browser. Comment on any site.


65 posted on 01/15/2021 2:52:21 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

It is very fast.


66 posted on 01/15/2021 3:50:01 PM PST by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: FreedomPoster

Do they have free email like Google?


67 posted on 01/15/2021 5:51:47 PM PST by Kevmo (I'm in a slow motion Red Dawn reality TV show. The tree of liberty is thirsty.)
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To: Kevmo

I doubt it.


68 posted on 01/15/2021 6:02:18 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Dr. Sivana; brownsfan

Yeah, me too...thought “that is wierd, why “AT Comments” a typo of “Commands”?

We may be headed back to the dial-up BBS days with what is going on with tyrannical censorship by leftist “social media”.

I have my old serial modem (kinda useless...current PC has no RS-232 port), and I bought a USB port dial-up modem (still in shrink wrap) for “emergency use”.


69 posted on 01/15/2021 6:12:36 PM PST by Drago
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To: Renkluaf
They asked that readers submit essays instead of comments to get the reader's opinion published.

Not sure that many people would do this, and those who do comment may not have the skills to write an essay that meets American Thinker's submission guidelines.

-PJ

70 posted on 01/15/2021 6:17:20 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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To: Drago
I have my old serial modem (kinda useless...current PC has no RS-232 port), and I bought a USB port dial-up modem (still in shrink wrap) for “emergency use”.

If you have a desktop PC you can get a PCI RS-232 card for it.
71 posted on 01/15/2021 7:08:10 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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