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redhed6971

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10/06/2015 11:03 PM
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Most news sites have disabled comments on politic posts.

My theory is that this decreases the odds of someone waking people up in the comment section.

Has anyone else noticed?
 Quoting: AntiPC


Oh yea. I noticed big time. Especially since silly little local and liberal news stations and papers quickly get one upped by readers who show far more knowledge and facts concerning certain events and the so-called journalistic integrity gets called into question constantly. When the Communist News Network DC'd comments about a year and a half ago in the wake of the Newtown Shootings, I knew they were trying to protect their asses. And now you can't find comments anywhere. Some of my local TV station websites switched to Fuckbook from Disqus and since I refuse to sign up for that crap I have only one station here that lets me comment because my local ABC affiliate webmaster can't stand my ass. Fucking cowards.
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Re: News sites disabling comments
Most news sites have disabled comments on politic posts.

My theory is that this decreases the odds of someone waking people up in the comment section.

Has anyone else noticed?
 Quoting: AntiPC


The comments sections everywhere are sounding more like GLP than GLP but not in a good way, in the way someone trolls someone else and everyone gets annoyed.

People are slowly getting angrier and angrier and they don't want to know that people aren't stupid, so, if they disable the comments then they can say people are happy and fine.
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10/06/2015 11:05 PM
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They have been doing this for about five years now.thats about when most everyone was going to fb.i personally watched fb lower likes on the pot initiative in cali.by over 50,000.
Thats part of the reason i left fb.they are trying to corral us into just a dozen or so sites where they can control the narrative.the propaganda is thick on the tv stations in east texas.the dislike button will just be another manipulatable tool that will be no measure either.lacking no real meaning.

Cotrolling the narrative seems to be the ultimate tool these days.
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10/06/2015 11:06 PM
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Yep they just did this to my local city newspaper last week.

Crazy stuff going on
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10/06/2015 11:07 PM
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People are saying they've been doing it forever, and while that may be true, it's only recently started to get bad... or at least bad enough for me to notice.
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10/06/2015 11:07 PM
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Yeah Control the Media and the Narratives and you can control the sheeple. Force upon them the status quo without them knowing.

It is diabolical!
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10/06/2015 11:08 PM
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They want traffic on their social networks......

No conspiracy. Many tech depts for media outlets are under pressure to get as many friends and follows as possiblE.
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10/06/2015 11:10 PM
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They don't want the truth to be seen
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No offense OP....but this has been going on for years now. I call it the 'social media noose'.
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10/06/2015 11:10 PM
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By being on the "social networks", they will find it easier to trace you.

...and then deal with you.

...like here, where you disappear into prisons, without charges or sentencing.
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10/06/2015 11:11 PM

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Most of the news services articles that allow comments usually show a huge conservative margin--particularly when dealing with 2nd Amendment, Hillary, Trump, and mass propaganda of news.

Continue to speak out. Local television networks often have Facebook sites that allow comments that are seen by thousands of locals.
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10/06/2015 11:11 PM
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I noticed today youtube will not let you copy and paste in the comment section. You MUST Type it.

Can anyone say accountability?
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It's not about accountability, it's about control.
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10/06/2015 11:12 PM
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Hahahahahahahahahaha.............:(
Coppercoal

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10/06/2015 11:12 PM
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Most news sites have disabled comments on politic posts.

My theory is that this decreases the odds of someone waking people up in the comment section.

Has anyone else noticed?
 Quoting: AntiPC


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ShillShank Reduction

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10/06/2015 11:13 PM
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Truthbomb noobs.
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10/06/2015 11:14 PM
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They don't want the truth to be seen
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No offense OP....but this has been going on for years now. I call it the 'social media noose'.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 70050573


Ding ding. Give the man a cookie.

They suck you into another forum.
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10/06/2015 11:14 PM
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They want traffic on their social networks......

No conspiracy. Many tech depts for media outlets are under pressure to get as many friends and follows as possiblE.
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shill
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10/06/2015 11:16 PM
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Professional news sites don't want their comments sections flooded with tinfoil hat nutbaggery. I can't blame them. 1dunno1
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Well, then you should stop bothering them, my friend!
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10/06/2015 11:16 PM
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10/06/2015 11:16 PM
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CNN disabled, DailyBeast, many others. They say "Leave a comment on social networks" ... Okay, like anyone is going to do that. They don't want people seeing the truth, just listen to their narrative and be a good boy.
 Quoting: AntiPC


I like how most of them, if you CAN leave a comment, require you to do so with a Facebook account. Like everyone has a Facebook account.

I assume that because there are so many assholes leaving particularly vulgar comments, that it begins to become too cumbersome to monitor. That's my take on it. I write - and when I've written something controversial, I've had to spend hours deleting offensive comments. If a comment adds to the discussion, I'll leave it. But if someone is REALLY bad, and many are, it just becomes too time consuming to delete comments and blacklist people.
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They want traffic on their social networks......

No conspiracy. Many tech depts for media outlets are under pressure to get as many friends and follows as possiblE.
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Yeah but fb will also censor or suspend you if they feel your out of line, they just want everyone posting in one place for control etc

Wouldn't be surprised if fb is the internet one day and everything goes through it.
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10/06/2015 11:17 PM
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Re: News sites disabling comments
Most news sites have disabled comments on politic posts.

My theory is that this decreases the odds of someone waking people up in the comment section.

Has anyone else noticed?
 Quoting: AntiPC


Free Speech? that's only for the multi-billion dollar gov't backed media!
 Quoting: Coppercoal


TRUMP IS BOSS.
THATS WHY.
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10/06/2015 11:17 PM
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Just vote Trump and let the comments be damned.
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10/06/2015 11:18 PM
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Censorship is their game. We are essentially Soviet Russia right now. Freedom of speech does not exist.
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GLP would not exist in soviet russia you delusional fuck
InTheGLPHood

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10/06/2015 11:19 PM

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People are saying they've been doing it forever, and while that may be true, it's only recently started to get bad... or at least bad enough for me to notice.
 Quoting: AntiPC


It is picking up steam...more and more are not allowing comments. You'll notice they are trying to only allow comments on the articles that the public will agree w/them on; otherwise, they blindside yeah w/the article, then you can't comment. They are freaking cowards.
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10/06/2015 11:20 PM
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Most news sites have disabled comments on politic posts.

My theory is that this decreases the odds of someone waking people up in the comment section.

Has anyone else noticed?
 Quoting: AntiPC


Free Speech? that's only for the multi-billion dollar gov't backed media!
 Quoting: Coppercoal


In fairness, the 1st amendment restrains the government, not private companies. It can certainly be argued that media has become a de facto government PR agency, via Mockingbird, but strict interpretation says that CNN is not the government itself and not required to provide 1st amendment protection.

What OP describes has certainly been ongoing and for the reasons most think. Too many comments outside of the approved narrative.
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10/06/2015 11:22 PM
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They want traffic on their social networks......

No conspiracy. Many tech depts for media outlets are under pressure to get as many friends and follows as possiblE.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 59149274


shill
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I work in media. I know nothing about driving traffic to other venues to make a brand more accessible.

Go back to pumping gas.
s. d. butler

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10/06/2015 11:23 PM
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Professional news sites don't want their comments sections flooded with tinfoil hat nutbaggery. I can't blame them. 1dunno1
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laugh


right. You believe the msm narrative. So naturally anyone disagreeing would be "tinfoil hat nutbaggery".

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zzcat

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10/06/2015 11:26 PM

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I usually read the headline and the first paragraph or so to get the jist of the story, then scroll down and read the comments for the real story. If there are no comments I don't bother with the story.
 Quoting: Copperhead


The comments are the only part worth reading
zzcat

who says Schrodinger's cat is even in the box
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10/06/2015 11:26 PM
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They want traffic on their social networks......

No conspiracy. Many tech depts for media outlets are under pressure to get as many friends and follows as possiblE.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 59149274


Yeah but fb will also censor or suspend you if they feel your out of line, they just want everyone posting in one place for control etc

Wouldn't be surprised if fb is the internet one day and everything goes through it.
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Yes.....but they sucked you into another venue. That's the plan.
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10/06/2015 11:27 PM
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CNN disabled, DailyBeast, many others. They say "Leave a comment on social networks" ... Okay, like anyone is going to do that. They don't want people seeing the truth, just listen to their narrative and be a good boy.
 Quoting: AntiPC


This ties directly in with what Matt Drudge spoke of today on Alex Jones show. I do mean directly, too.

He spoke how the elite wish to have facebook and twitter to become where news is garnered. Ran by automation with no real thought. It will be centralized in every way. Drudge will be dead in a year internet wise or real life. Change is coming fast.





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