Irish websites comments being deleted...

voz es

Is anybody else finding this?
A friend was telling me about recently commenting on RTE.IE website and complaining about their automatic questionnaire regarding whether or not the viewer wanted to learn more about their entertainment section. Aparently there was a no not interested section which she chose many times and the message kept re appearing. Well she decided to comment on their entertainment pages complaining about this and rte aparently appeared to not display her comment and instead give her creditability rating a very low rating. If this is the case it is terrible as this is something we are all paying for and it needs to be impartial.

One would wonder how a state funded body has the right to edit comments in the first place.....

I'm thinging this whole post is very much in keeping with boards.ie's liability restrictions ;-)

Finally I am hoping if non of or mods have any issue could we have a vote on having a thread titled ' they would not let me post, with any poster prior to sending it thus adding a picture with said post and link to article they wanted to post it on......

AnonoBoy

So just ONE Irish website you're talking about really?

Bit of a misleading thread title.

I vote you be banned from the internet or at least from the Irish part of the internet.

Hammer89

Could've sworn I gave my two cents on this thread earlier.

voz es

oh strong words, I vote for all websites to allow all reasonable non hate comments and I also vote to have me kept on the internet because I reckon i'm not the worst.

And not at all sure what you user name means, and im not sure is mine makes any sense so I think we have a weak bond at the least.

I have noticed a lot of Irish websites being called out on their banning of comments lacking the required digestibility for their current agenda.

Capt'n Midnight

voz es wrote: »

One would wonder how a state funded body has the right to edit comments in the first place.....

I'm thinging this whole post is very much in keeping with boards.ie's liability restrictions ;-)

Yeah pretty much ,

do you know how much RTE have paid out over the years to legal claims ?

voz es

Hammer89 wrote: »

Could've sworn I gave my two cents on this thread earlier.

ah no i'm not copying a thread :-( sorry AH Bosses that be

Hammer89

voz es wrote: »

ah no i'm not copying a thread :-( sorry AH Bosses that be

I'm wasted on you's.

AnonoBoy

Because they're state-funded you think they should be forced to publish potentially libellous comments on their site .. why exactly?

corner of hells

Hammer89 wrote: »

I'm wasted on you's.

No , no you're not.
Have you really got 89 hammers?

ahnowbrowncow

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

do you know how much RTE have paid out over the years to legal claims ?

No, do you have a figure?

voz es

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Because they're state-funded you think they should be forced to publish potentially libellous comments on their site .. why exactly?

Okay lets agree on them having no obligation to post libelous comments and indeed being wise not to do so.

Lets look at the possibly suggested possibility of them adding negative credits to a persons profile( thus trying to indicate a discredit to an other viewer) and deleting( or choosing not to post) comments they might not agree with or that highlights their own tactics in trying to promote issues that are not balanced or are pushy advertising, lets just say they are possibly doing that would you agree that they are acting with a total lack of balance..... should this be the case?

voz es

Hammer89 wrote: »

I'm wasted on you's.

There is only one of me, but I assure you I am not looking for interest.

Azalea

voz es wrote: »

I'm thinging this whole post is very much in keeping with boards.ie's liability restrictions ;-)

Finally I am hoping if non of or mods have any issue could we have a vote on having a thread titled ' they would not let me post, with any poster prior to sending it thus adding a picture with said post and link to article they wanted to post it on......

Could you explain this a bit more? Not having a go - just don't totally understand it.

darkpagandeath

computer says know... This is the governments view of the internet.

entropi

There are plenty of websites with comment sections that will choose to hide comments that don't suit their agenda. That is nothing new. It doesn't even need to have a legal basis for hiding the comment.

nokia69

entropi wrote: »

There are plenty of websites with comment sections that will choose to hide comments that don't suit their agenda. That is nothing new. It doesn't even need to have a legal basis for hiding the comment.

A bit like this site

RDM_83 again

entropi wrote: »

There are plenty of websites with comment sections that will choose to hide comments that don't suit their agenda. That is nothing new. It doesn't even need to have a legal basis for hiding the comment.

This comment was removed by a moderator because it didn't abide by our community standards. Replies may also be deleted. For more detail see our FAQs.

Is the most common reply on some Guardian articles

Azalea

Private companies can remove potentially defamatory, abusive, trolling, incitement to hatred comments if they wish.

People say "Oh it's because it's not in line with their agenda" yet you'll still see plenty of comments published that aren't in line with their agenda. The comments removed likely fit into the categories I listed above.

NachoBusiness

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For Forks Sake

Azalea wrote: »

Private companies can remove potentially defamatory, abusive, trolling, incitement to hatred comments if they wish.

People say "Oh it's because it's not in line with their agenda" yet you'll see plenty of comments published that aren't in line with their agenda. The comments removed likely fit into the categories I listed above.

A quick trawl of the 'comments' on thejournal is the best argument in favour of censorship you'll ever see.

Yea, if there's one place that really should shut down its comment section, it's thejournal.ie.

The Randy Riverbeast

I'm always impressed by the people who claim a website is out to get them but are able to complain about it. Surely those comments would have also been deleted if that was the case?

Irish Guitarist

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GreatDefector

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