March 17
2006
The Guardian doesn't even pull comments it admits should be pulled
» Posted on March 17, 2006 12:13 AM » Category: Anti-semitism

Well, the proof of the pudding, as I said in the post below, is in the eating. At 1.23pm I was told, as you can read in the email which I posted (at the writer's request), that the offensive comment would be taken down.

And I gave them credit for doing so: "[T]hey can't do more than take down such offensive remarks".

It turns out that they haven't even done that. It's now gone midnight, and it's still there, plain for all to see. Maybe it's a techincal problem. Maybe overnight it will vanish. But if the best the Guardian can do, even when it agrees that a comment on its site is offensive, is...nothing, it does not augur well for the future.

Unless, that is, you're a racist, an anti-Semite or a bigot looking for a platform for your views.


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