Desperate to cling onto their ability to dictate reality, the crumbling mainstream media is beginning to kill off article comment sections in a cynical bid to silence dissenting voices.
Studies confirm that article comments sections - for better or worse - are heavily swaying public opinion. How many times have you read a mainstream news article about NSA spying, drones, gun control or any other other hot button issue where the author sides with the establishment, only to have their argument completely eviscerated by the respondents in the comment section?
Recent polls show that trust in mainstream media is hovering at record lows. After largely failing to influence the court of public opinion via paid trolls, the establishment is starting to panic and is responding by moving to cull comment sections altogether.
Popular Science and BoingBoing.net recently announced their decision to kill comment sections on their website. Thew New York times also recently announced that it is scaling back comments and removing them from some articles altogether.
As an excellent Daily Tech piece highlights, Popular Science admitted that its decision to pull the comment section was in order to preach a "scientific doctrine" on global warming without being challenged. The origin of the word "doctrine" is to indoctrinate. Therefore, Popular Science is taking the most unscientific approach possible - by censoring debate and stifling alternative ideas - in order to indoctrinate its readers.
The decision to kill comment sections on news websites will only result in the mainstream losing traffic to alternative sites which allow free expression and do not resort to censorship.
Watch the video above for the full breakdown of this audacious new attempt to stifle free speech by the mainstream media.
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ya, been tearin those disgusting disqus dix new ones on a regular basis ;)
another trend is to add http://disqus.com/ - a total real time censor machine
Good suggestions sleat - there are many mainstream media news sites that are currently allowing comments to be posted. I have noticed however, that some are very intrusive now, on the degree of information they chose to collect from you, in an effort for you to register.
And this is where you idea will work really well - if I fully understand what you're suggesting.
Here's what could be done:
Build a website, and possibly an associated browser plugin, which can see the urls being clicked, and identify if an article surfed-to has comments available or not. If it doesn't, it sends a message to your server, and a searchable entry is created there for the article on the other site. The browser can also notify the user that the article can be commented on at your site!
One might call the site haveyoursay.com, or weighin.com, or maybe speakeasy.com, or freespeech.com
You could also hook up with Google Ads to place ads on websites to bring people wishing to comment on content to _your_ site. On that site, is a fair-use citation, or cross-referenced, searchable link to that article in question. Depending on the permitted use available, it might even include the whole article, with republishing info.
People come to your site, and comment on the very same article, to their heart's content!
¡viva la libertad de expresión
"as trolls destroy usefulness of user comments"
Oh really?
So in other words; if you don't agree wit the narrative, you're labelled a troll?
Popular Science to shut down nearly all article comments as trolls destroy usefulness of user comments
by J. D. Heyes, Natural News
The Internet is open and (largely) free, an excellent forum for the exchange of opinions and ideas. Only, in recent years, it has also become a cesspool of incivility, where nameless, faceless people use the safety of anonymity to spew vitriolic, hateful comments they would otherwise never say to someone’s face.
In fact, there are people who exist to do just that, and they are appropriately called Internet “trolls.” sgtreport
Yes - it proves that the truth does hurt.
It seems like back sass will no longer be a feature on the internet. That is a shame.
That's funny - could also be a can of Shill - lac.
see it everyday, have no mercy on these unrelentless pricks and the trolls that haunt them.
I noticed this way back a while ago, seeing less and less places to leave ur "opinion"...lol
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