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Like fascism spreading throughout early 20th century Europe, private censorship of individual ideas is spreading rapidly through the technology business community. Netflix has decided to shut down commentary on its videos and movies. Although it claims That this is due to low participation, it is pretty clear that this is just part of the trend to censor few points many of which no doubt are comments that, as a whole, were criticizing their crappy shows.
How long does this forum have until its shut down? A year? Two?
1) I'm a big Netflix user and I didn't know it existed.
2) They have lots of great shows and some crappy shows.
3) This is not fascism and it's frankly insulting to both our intelligence and actual victims of fascism with
that whiny post full of hyperbole.
4) There are a ton of review sites out there that comment on a variety of shows. You could also start your own blog. Netflix hosting their own comments costs them money and is redundant.
5) We both know that they likely got tired of policing NUTJOBS posting political and other garbage off-topic to the actual show....just like this forum has to police idiots that talk about bombing a gathering of muslims or Trump or whatever other idiocy is going on that day.
The irony is, you conflate the 2 as if they are one in the same. The level of low information intellect, we have to deal with here daily. Or you are being dishonest with yourself, for a greater agenda.
Oh, but I haven't conflated the two whatsoever. I, for instance, know that the simple act of a content provider removing user generated content does not automatically turn them into a content publisher.
I absolutely love watching these Repubs bellyaching to no end over private companies running their businesses as they see fit. Isn't that what you've been wanting, righties? For private businesses to treat people any way they wish with no regard for human decency? Well, it looks like those chickens are coming home to roost. I say grow a pair and live with it. That's how you expect others to deal with these situations. Poetic justice at its finest!
It IS kinda funny.
That aside -who in the heck spent time looking at or making comments on Netflix???!
Why would anyone think a private company should be forced to host a platform for their personal views?
In other news, most tech co's lean left and as such opposing viewpoints will not be recieved warmly if at all.
For how long? The issue is not just Netflix deleting its comments section. It’s the concerted effort among the tech companies to remove dissent, individual opinion, and free discourse from the internet.
I would hazard to guess that there are still millions of other sites where one can offer dissent, etc. to their heart's delight.
And even if there weren't, so what?
How did people survive before they could spew their thoughts and feelings all over the internet?
Seriously.
Movies, books, etc. existed long before Netflix, Goodreads and the like.
People still enjoyed them without reading the often questionable "reviews" from the population-at-large, many of whom clearly have no intent other than to leave noxious reviews and comments because of some ridiculous inherent biases.
Is what other people think about a movie or TV show that you watch really that important?
Will it change your enjoyment of said media?
Will your life be somehow different if you are not able to voice your, ahem, learned opinion about said entertainment?
What is really being lost here other than yet another opportunity to either vocally swim with the tide or against it?
If you want to be a published author, reviewer or whatever, there are other outlets for that.
In the meantime, their business, their rules.
Don't like it, boycotts are always popular.
Why would anyone think a private company should be forced to host a platform for their personal views?
In other news, most tech co's lean left and as such opposing viewpoints will not be recieved warmly if at all.
With regard to Netflix - they are suspending ALL comments - not just liberal or conservative comments.
With regard to Netflix - they are suspending ALL comments - not just liberal or conservative comments.
Exactly what I was going to say. It seems the only people upset about this our on the right. Is that because they were the only ones spewing garbage on Netflix's boards? I doubt it.
Exactly what I was going to say. It seems the only people upset about this our on the right. Is that because they were the only ones spewing garbage on Netflix's boards? I doubt it.
Yep, they likely had to clear a lot of SJW and #metoo off various shows like House of Cards....then no doubt some of the shows with Trump detractors in it....or Roseanne etc. etc. etc.
Who wants to check out what people thought of a movie they might want to watch only to read the type of garbage we get in the political forum?
That's like going to a restaurant and asking the waiter about the soup of the day and having them launch into a tirade about the second amendment and abortion. NOT THE PLACE....but then again political nutters have no sense of their own rudeness most of the time.
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