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CBC cuts comments towards First Nations

» News website removes the comment section due to racist trolling

« Brittney MacDonald
Life & Style Editor
As lifeandstyle@theotherpress.ca

( ' enerally speaking, websites
are pretty complacent when

even reads comments anymore
anyway? CBC has taken it a
step further, though. Rather
than just ignoring what goes
on in their comment section
like most news websites, they
decided to disable comments
on certain stories entirely.
After noticing a disturbing
trend regarding any story they

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: published online that involved
: the First Nations people, CBC

: has decided that they will

: disable the comment section

: on any Aboriginal stories in the
: future. CBC claims that this is
it comes to toxicity; I mean, who : due to an overload of racist and
: inappropriate comments posted
: by users. Despite repeated

: attempts to filter the content

: of the comments, elimination

: of all inappropriate comments

: was not possible, leading the

: site administrators to this

: rather extreme decision.

The decision has not

: gone unopposed, though.

CBC has come under fire

: with accusations of being

: somewhat elitist. Criticism

: made by fellow news site The

: Rebel claims that the action

: eliminates the voice of working
: class or “grass roots” First

: Nations, while propagating the
: opinions of “millionaire chiefs.”
: The Rebel also claims that

: what is said in the comments

: section is as much a part of

: the story as the quotes used in
: the article itself. 1 personally

: find these accusations a little

: radical and extremely binary.

Where I see the problem

: lying is that the removal of the
: comments section is specific to

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: First Nations stories, which is
: problematic because it comes
: off as white-washing. Yes,

: more often than not, when

: you have a news posting about
: any minority group, you are

: going to be faced with a lot

: of racist backlash. However,

: by eliminating the response

: platform entirely, but only doing :
: so when the question of race is

: a factor, you are left with the

: singular opinion of the article’s
: author alone—and let’s be

: honest, CBC isn’t exactly known
: for its racial diversity when it

: comes to content creators.

Instead, it seems wiser to

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: devolve back to the old ways of

: dealing with reader concerns,

: and remove the comment

: section from every story. This

: forces people to actually contact
: the web administrators, writers,
: and editors themselves, either

: through email or social media,

: as opposed to offering them

an immediate, public outlet

: for every thought that enters

: their brain. This method has

: had quite a bit of success with

: websites like The Times and

: The Chicago Sun, and would

: probably be a better option than
: CBC’s current course of action.

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« Brittney MacDonald
Life & Style Editor
As lifeandstyle@theotherpress.ca

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