Don’t start nothing, won’t be nothing: newspaper comment edition

The latest in ignorant rage on the internet: Some idiot resigned from their job after being confronted about a vulgar comment they made twice on a news site that didn’t conform to their employer’s policies but surprisingly, lots of people are up in arms over it. Yet, you’ll still see many griping over the comments at such newspaper sites.

Personally, I don’t believe that newspaper sites should have comment sections. That’s what blogs are for, so nobody has to read the dumb stuff that you write! If it wasn’t written well enough to even be published in print as a letter to the editor, why should it go online? (Hint: “freedom of speech” is incorrect.)

Yeah, you bet if you leave a shitty remark anonymously on my blog, I’ll WHOIS your IP address. Which I already have done in the past, so my ex-boyfriends have learned to use proxies when visiting my blog.