This is a huge opportunity for anyone to setup an objective alternative online SA news aggregation service with public participation on servers far away from their grubby paws.
[Re. alt news source] Reddit already exists
Reddit is suffering from the same malaise. It's a global clampdown.
Good move - if you feel like saying something disgusting about other races, go say it in their faces at a township or in Orania... Keyboard ninjas, racists and armchair critics will be up in arms... but who gives a **** really?
Not everyone can be paid to criticize, and not eveyone can actually bear arms, but many of these folk might have perfectly good reasoning, and be able to offer insight to their fellow man. If society expects these people to present their papers before raising their hands to speak, then society is lost.
The {REDACTED} has mounted a strong campaign against true freedom of speech. As long as the internet exists the {REDACTED} cannot control the news and the facts. They can take down the established press, they can subtly and slowly change the laws, they can ignore court rulings, but they can not stop the truth from being spoken on the internet. Only by blocking internet access to certain sites, such as China has done, can they achieve this.
These words, no matter what political entity is inserted into the statement, will always be valid, and the evil imperative to control thought will always remain. But hey, in the words of zululami: "who gives a *** really?"
However, online comments do not constitute a reporting of facts, nor are they 'freedom of speech'. A great deal of it is the spewing of hatred with no original ideas or thought involved.
Earth is a realm of dirt. We NEED the muck. It feeds the FRUIT.
People voicing their frustrations is not the same as people spewing hatred. If these people are unable to voice their frustrations in a manner which does not violate the dignity and respect of other race groups then they do not deserve to be heard.
You CANNOT have good without evil, unless there is NO FREEDOM, but the human race will die trying...
My point is if someone on here as an example makes derogatory comments on lets say Malema, and Malema then wants to take action. It's a crap load of shyte that needs to be gone through to get the identity of the person involved. Said person would probably not have posted such comments knowing that their identity is not protected.
As it should be. The Avengers - they "don't know the difference between saving the world, and destroying it."
If it's one thing that history has taught us it's that censorship works.
BINGOl
It's not censorship though is it?
Asking for people to post without anonymity is not censorship. It just means that you can defend your stance or view point publicly and even in a court if need be.
It's about self-censorship. Read up on "Chilling Effects". See my post here (), where even under the guise of pseudo-anonymity (because that's all it is), no-one else has been willing to utter a peep. Ironic, since that effect is exactly what the article was about.
Yes, valid criticism is now the victim of this due to News24 and IOL not being prepared to make sure the leg work is done in making sure the identities of these posters are true and available or that the posts are actually moderated as pointed out by MickeyD. They should just do the ground work on their end to comply with this and open the comments sections. That way criticism valid will not be affected by comments and opinions.
Are you an employee in the "Know Your Customer" campaign PR department?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer
I think I have a solution to this problem/issue.
Yes there are people who are intolerant and hate speech should never be tolerated. I am however against censorship.
Messages on apps like snapchat disappear after a few seconds.
Why cant news sites automatically delete comments after 24 hours?
You have 24 hours to debate and voice your opinion. It would be too much effort to get a court order if comments are deleted after 24 hours.
This system makes sense to me on a current affairs site, as content is changing daily.
Are you an employee of the "Memory Hole" department of the Ministry of Truth?
Good idea, but I would go further. I would have a ranking system on the comments, and each registered user gets to upvote one comment. Then you take the 20 or so highest rated comments and publish them to the article as: "What our readers said:". If the comment contains hate speech, you put a warning label on it so people can be aware of what they are reading then you publish it.
Problem-reaction-solution. Creatures of the Wheel indeed.
Not providing a platform for comment is not censorship though. Nobody with a website is obliged to offer a platform for comments
If it is technically possible for people to remotely communicate over some public medium, and only legislation and willpower holds it back from being achieved, there is some kind of censorship going on, enforced, or voluntary - same effect either way - a non-communicative society.
From the article no-one will comment on: (
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/11/if-youre-not-paranoid-youre-crazy/407833/)
There in the pool, immersed in clouds of steam that fostered a sense of mystic intimacy, I wondered whether a generation that found the concept of privacy archaic might be undergoing a great mutation, surrendering the interior psychic realms whose sanctity can no longer be assured. Masking one’s insides behind one’s outsides—once the essential task of human social life—was becoming a strenuous, suspect undertaking; why not, like my teenage acquaintance, just quit the fight? Surveillance and data mining presuppose that there exists in us a hidden self that can be reached through probing and analyses that are best practiced on the unaware, but what if we wore our whole beings on our sleeves? Perhaps the rush toward self-disclosure precipitated by social media was a preemptive defense against intruders: What’s freely given can’t be stolen. Interiority on Planet X‑Ray is a burden that’s best shrugged off, not borne. My teenage friend was onto something. Become a bright, flat surface. Cast no shadow.
More than enough reason then to not give in and fight this bull****.
I can take a lot of crap in this country but the day freedom of speech is eroded in such a sinister way is the day I finally get off my ass and take to the streets.
Imagine your real name was attached to that statement... :/
From the article no-one will comment on: (
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/11/if-youre-not-paranoid-youre-crazy/407833/)
The gun show was not about weaponry, primarily, but about autonomy—construed in this case as the right to stand one’s ground against an arrogant, intrusive new order whose instruments of suppression and control I’d seen for myself the night before. There seemed to be no rational response to the feelings of powerlessness stirred by the cybernetic panopticon; the choice was either to ignore it or go crazy, at least to some degree. With its coolly planar architecture, the data center projected a stern indifference to the qualms that its presence inevitably raised. It practically dared one to take up arms against it, a Goliath that roused the instinct to grab a slingshot. The assault rifles and grenade launchers (I handled one, I hope for the last time) for sale were props in a drama of imagined resistance in which individuals would rise up to defend themselves. The irony was that preparing for such a fight in the only way these people knew how—by plotting their countermoves and hoarding ammo—played into the very security concerns that the overlords use to justify their snooping. The would-be combatants in this epic conflict were more closely linked, perhaps, than they appreciated.
