Breitbart: Leftists Hate Comment Sections

In a truly laughable case of hypocrisy, today Breitbart is denouncing progressive sites which have censoriously done away with their comment sections due to abusive and racist postings. They write:

The internet was born open but is becoming closed everywhere. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the rush to shutter readers’ comments sections at major news organisations. Cheered on by intolerant, snobbish cultural elites, news organisations from The Verge to The Daily Beast have, in recent months, informed their readers to take their opinions elsewhere. Dozens of progressive blogs and news outlets are following suit, citing “abuse” and “harassment” as the primary reasons they no longer want to hear the opinions of their readers. At the risk of sounding too self-congratulatory, here at Breitbart we embrace our readers’ opinions. We love hearing from you guys! And there are a lot of you: 1.2 million comments, not including Facebook, are left on Breitbart.com each month. We are in fact one of the most enthusiastically commented-upon sites anywhere on the internet. There’s a gross double standard in what’s going on in the progressive mediasphere, of course. Many of the columnists who complain the loudest about spiky comments are themselves professional provocateurs.

As many of you here know very well, Breitbart is the most ban-happy site on the web where even a hint a dissent will often result in permanent banishment. But don’t go to the above link and say that – you’ll probably get banned.