Slightly modified cross post from another thread. If you really want to understand the Guardians motivation, look at when they realised that the vast majority

Slightly modified cross post from another thread. If you really want to understand the Guardians motivation, look at when they realised that the vast majority of their left-leaning readers strongly disagreed with them regarding Islamic terrorism and the refugee crisis. Closed comments on certain articles due to “a change in mainstream public opinion and language that we do not wish to see reflected or supported on the site”.[0] At least they didn't even pretend that it wasn't because the majority of their readership disagreed with them. It seems like they are trying to change their approach to convince people censorship is the right path. Perhaps straight out telling the majority of their loyal readership that their opinions are wrong/bad/racist/evil wasn't the best approach. [0]http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/31/readers-editor-on-readers-comments-below-the-line http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/31/readers...