{"id":296253,"date":"2017-02-23T21:43:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T20:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/why-mainstream-media-websites-are-censoring-removing-comment-sections\/"},"modified":"2017-02-23T21:43:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T20:43:03","slug":"why-mainstream-media-websites-are-censoring-removing-comment-sections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/why-mainstream-media-websites-are-censoring-removing-comment-sections\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Mainstream Media Websites Are Censoring &amp; Removing Comment Sections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p>Readers influenced more by comment section than the article itself<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Joseph Watson<\/strong><br \/>Prison Planet.com<br \/>February 22, 2017 <!-- NO_ADS_IN_ARTICLE --><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hw.infowars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/230217censored1.jpg\" alt=\"null\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\"><strong>News that Google has developed a new AI system that \u201cidentifies abusive comments\u201d to clamp down on \u201chate speech\u201d reminds us why mainstream media websites are censoring and removing comment sections altogether \u2013 because studies show they have more influence over the opinion of the reader than the article itself.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">Google\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/8786cce8-f91e-11e6-bd4e-68d53499ed71\">new tool<\/a>, Perspective, works by comparing comments left on news websites to comments left on Wikipedia and the New York Times that were deemed \u201ctoxic\u201d by a team of human reviewers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">The only criteria given for what constitutes a \u201ctoxic\u201d comment is that it causes someone to leave a conversation. Obviously, this could also include someone who lost a debate or who is merely offended or triggered by another comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">With trust in mainstream media plummeting, the real goal behind the censorship and in some cases entire removal of comment sections is to manipulate public opinion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">As the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytech.com\/Editorial%2BPopSci%2BKills%2BComments%2BBlames%2BGlobal%2BWarming%2BEvolution\/article33437.htm\">Daily Tech revealed<\/a>, Popular Science admitted that the decision to pull its comment section was in order to preach a \u201cscientific doctrine\u201d on global warming without being challenged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">Popular Science acknowledged that their decision was based on a <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/jcc4.12009\/full\">study<\/a> by Dominique Brossard, a Life Sciences Communication professor at the Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, that appeared in the February 2013 edition of the peer-reviewed <em>Journal of Computer-Mediated Communications<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">The study found that, \u201cPeople reacted neutrally when comments were disabled, but even when comments were generally positive their reactions did not noticeably improve. However, when the reader feedback took on a \u201cless civil\u201d tone with people questioning the merits of nanotechnology, user perception of the publication itself (not just the topic discussed) took a decidedly negative turn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">In&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/why-mainstream-media-websites-are-censoring-removing-comment-sections.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readers influenced more by comment section than the article itself Paul Joseph WatsonPrison Planet.comFebruary 22, 2017 News that Google has developed a new AI system that \u201cidentifies abusive comments\u201d to clamp down on \u201chate speech\u201d reminds us why mainstream media websites are censoring and removing comment sections altogether \u2013 because studies show they have more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-296253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}