Tracking the Illegal Shipment of Sarin Precursor from Belgium to Syria

Re:Tracking the Illegal Shipment of Sarin Precursor from Bel... by acct1771 on Sunday April 22, 2018 @04:27PM (#16898387)

Let the comments speak for themselves. Don't hide them behind a barrier. Freedom of expression is more important than protecting people from reading mean ideas about their favorite politician etc.

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Re:Tracking the Illegal Shipment of Sarin Precursor from Bel... by wybiral on Sunday April 22, 2018 @05:23PM (#16898667)

You have the freedom to go on Twitter and write mean things about someone's favorite politician.

And news sites have the freedom to remove unwanted noise and divisive trolling from their articles.

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Re:Tracking the Illegal Shipment of Sarin Precursor from Bel... by freeflight on Sunday April 22, 2018 @09:33PM (#16899867)

> And news sites have the freedom to remove unwanted noise and divisive trolling from their articles.

Sure they have, but if you actually consider media the "fourth branch of government" then wouldn't it be more desirable to let people have public discourse and debate, after all, that's supposed to be its role?

Print media at least has reader's letters, what's the modern equivalent of digital media? Comments! They allow even more people to participate in the discourse. Disable the comments and what's left? Pretty much nothing but articles quoting random noise from Twitter, which isn't something everybody can or wants to participate in.

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