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What I find chilling is in the age of the internet the comment sections on news sites are heavily censored (e.g. CBC). Which seems to allow a strange mix of vie
by dhughes 14y ago
What I find chilling is in the age of the internet the comment sections on news sites are heavily censored (e.g. CBC). Which seems to allow a strange mix of viewpoints but what you don't see is what worries me.
As for insulting religions it's funny that most times it's religion against religion more than non-religious again religious.
- indiecore 14y agothe CBC comments section is heavily censored? Looking at it I didn't think they even had moderators.
- dhughes 14y agoThey have "trusted users" who get a star beside their name, for some weird reason you can't use arrow keys to backspace you can use backspace, plus it takes a good minute for comments to load, comments seem to work in IE browser only. I know people who have tried to make a general comment and are denied but others who make far harsher statements seem to always get them posted. It seems not so much censoring as some weird agenda, it's bizarre. A lot of times commenting is restricted which is too bad since I like to see what people think of stories; pro or con.
- guylhem 14y agoMost of the european news website are also censored, by law. Moderators are paid to remove comments, or whole threads. Some words are banned. The purge is even worse that at CBC. As you said, the real problem is you can't really guess what people think, or how many share a viewpoint, unless you have a bot fetching the page and watching the disappearing posts. And that worries me too. At least on HN you can see hellbanned with showdead (hello josephcooney! you may find this discussion amusing, I find it at least better than european style censorship)
- ommunist 14y agoThe BBC is heavily censoring comments in the news. Victims of UK killers in Afghanistan have no voice there.