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[Lemmy]

Read one day's worth of posts by the "usual suspects" around here and you'll get a good idea of the general level of intellectual maturity among many anonymous internet users. Cutting commenting sections is being done for the exact same reason we set up a kiddie table when we have dinner guests: to let the adults converse without childish interruptions.

[BartSimpson]

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So we're gonna hang the reporters from lightpoles like it's Iraq? I can see why sites are closing commenting sections with threatening intentions like that floating around.

Reporters have stopped reporting the news and anymore they're just agents of a virtual propaganda ministry.

UC Berkeley has acknowledge this reality by codifying it into a curriculum.

https://www.edx.org/course/journalism-s ... j4sc101x-0

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The media is now openly agitating for the Democrats and the socialists. So if reporters want to stand with our enemies then they can hang with them, too.

[Thanos]

Hit the CBC comments sections before you say it's only the "usual suspects" on the right that act this way. If I want witness sheer blind left wing hatred on display, the kind that makes a commie choad like romanp look like a piker in comparison, all I do is take a stroll through the comments section of our wonderful taxpayer funded Mother Corp. CKA is also head and shoulders above any Disque forum too from either the left or the right.

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YOU added the "on the right" part. The "usual suspects" I referred to inhabit the gutters on both sides.

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[BartSimpson]

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It's all free speech last I heard, even lies and political motivations, and doesn't warrent vigilante capital punishment... My take on it, at least.

If their avowed intent is to lie and manipulate people into taking actions then it's only fair to hold them accountable for those actions. N'est-ce pas?

[DrCaleb]

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It's all free speech last I heard, even lies and political motivations, and doesn't warrent vigilante capital punishment... My take on it, at least.

It is free speech, but maintaining a server for people to post speech on and a employing moderators isn't 'free'. And there is no 'right' to have someone paying for infrastructure that supports their business to also allow people to voice their opinions.

They can write and speak all they want - on servers they pay for and maintain.

[BartSimpson]

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If you were Muslim, it's pretty clear what kind you'd be.

The kind who drinks Scotch, enjoys a Passover seder, eats bacon, cusses like a...well, a Marine, and who enjoys seeing women wearing bikinis in public?

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[DrCaleb]

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DrCaleb; Absolutely. But I meant for reporters. They are free to lie or try to pursuade. It's free speech. Suggesting we hang reporters who say things we dislike is something I only hear of from Middle Eastern shitholes or the Khmer Rouge or something.

Ah, ok. But I understand Bart's frustration as well. Just watch any US news for a while, you will see his point. To call what appears on the 6 o'Clock news a 'reporter' is a bit of a stretch. To call what populate Cable News networks 'journalists' is also insulting to actual journalists. They add nothing to the sum of human knowledge, and can easily be replaced with a few cat videos.

Woodward and Bernstein, Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Jason Szep and Andrew R.C. Marshal - these are Journalists. It's not about 'free speech' with a journalist, it's about getting to the truth of a story.

And Bart is frustrated with those who do not tell the truth, but instead use 'free speech' to try to make us think they do.

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talks about carpet bombing innocents in Syria

This bit of misinformation needs to be handled first. None of the GOP candidates said this. CNN's debate moderator, Hugh Hewitt, said it.

I'm not blaming you but this bit of bullshit is an example of how the media poisons public discourse.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... 5591616038

26 seconds of video. Ted Cruz: " We will carpet bomb ISIS"

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