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CBS News anchor Katie Couric issued a call to arms to fight website “trolls and haters” and to bring civility to the debate.
On this one I’m with Katie as long as she wants this to apply to all sides of the debate and not just conservatives who don’t share her point of view.
AIM’s site has been the victim of trolls and others whose sole purpose is to attack the other commenters on the site or to incite an online war of words. We have worked very hard to remove those that issue inappropriate comments and will in the near future roll out a new registration requirement that should solve the problem once and for all.
The web is a wonderful tool but is too often abused by those that lack decency and civility and forces sites like ours to either disallow all comments or to create a system where only trusted commenters can participate.
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7 Comments for Couric Calls for Web Commenter Civility
Katie, civility should start with telling the truth. You should try it once. Night after night you propagandize the “news”. Tell the truth and maybe your ratings might go up from the single digets. Sounds like sour grape whining to me.
Miss Couric needs to take her own advice. During the 8 solid years of Bush Bashing her silence on the matter was deafening.
She spins the news each night “Pravda” style and is a media disgrace just like all these liberal lunatics.
They all have 2 sets of rules, one for them and one for us.
The rules they set for us does not apply to them.
What duplicitous muckrakers they are!
I agree, but liberals will never be civil. They prefer to call us NAZIS, RACISTS, Tea Baggers, etc. They and the mainstream media are full of liars and journalists who have no integrity, including Katie, so what she says will go nowhere with the libs. Just more fluff from someone who has no credibility.
by “trolls and haters”
she means anyone who disagrees or shows dissent
Protect free speech!!!!
This call to civility by the left is actually a not-so-silent consent for the FCC to continue trying to regulate political content under the guise of a fairness doctrine as a way to get rid of the “haters” (read:tea party/white conservatives).
It wasn’t too long ago that the left was up in arms against any hint at restricting speech or press. My how times have changed; wash away the social feel-good veneer of the left and you are left with a big brother acceptance rivaling the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei…
The FCC is making the internet a public utility TODAY in order to take-over the content.
The Supreme Court told the FCC they did NOT have authority to control web content so the
FCC is changing the internet from PRIVATELY HELD BUSINESSES TO A GOVERNMENT UTILITY!!!
This needs to be stopped TODAY OR THE FREEDOM OF WEB CONTENT WILL BE LOST FOREVER.
I agree with her and anyone who made negative comments about the tragedy of Marie Osmond’s son should be ASHAMED. At the same time i find it OFFENSIVE for anyone from CBS to even be on ACCURACY IN MEDIA WHEN THEIR TOTALY BIAS LEFT LIBERAL REPORTING OR NON REPORTING OF ISSUES AND NEWS IS PATHETIC.