The San Francisco Chronicle has recently activated a devious system by which it deceives commenters on its website, SFGate.com. Here’s how it works:If you make a comment on an article posted at SFGate, and if the site moderators then subsequently delete your comment for whatever reason, it will only appear as deleted to the other readers. HOWEVER, your comment will NOT appear to be deleted if viewed from your own computer! The Chronicle‘s goal is to trick deleted commenters into not knowing their comments were in fact deleted. I’ll give evidence below showing how they do this.
That’s Investigate the Media [1]… who then goes on in great detail to do exactly what he says.
Why would SFGate do such a thing? Because ever since public input was first allowed at SFGate, many commenters who had their comments deleted would come back onto the comment thread and point out that they had been silenced for ideological reasons — i.e. they weren’t sufficiently “progressive” — or because they had pointed out ethical lapses at SFGate and the Chronicle. Or any number of other reasons that the Chronicle did not want known.
Well, don’t figure the SF Chron is alone in this. Says LGF [2]:
Surprise! George Soros-funded pseudo-blog Think Progress [3] is pulling the same trick to censor critics. Konservo has screen shots to prove it [4].
That’s going on at the rate is, shouldn’t surprise anybody. After all, Manual deletions of people you don’t agree with, has been happening for some time now. As a matter of fact, I would suggest that we start checking all left wing sources for the same kind of deception. We’re going to find, I suspect, that it’s far more prevalent than anyone understood.
But there’s something else I want you to do: I’d like you to consider that kind of individual who would put together that kind of coding. Who among us would consider it necessary? Someone… or a group of someones desperate to win an election, perhaps? What does this say about the left wing, that it uses what I would refer to as intellectual fraud, to this degree? …. and yes, when I talk about the left, I’m talking about the press.
Update:(Bit) I note Chuckie [5] had a comment on his blog about this post, but for some reason, it got deleted. Irony abounds….