Canada to firmly re-assess its status as a British colony

[Jacob]

Those kind of comments are standard on just about any topic.

Also, it's a bit of a stretch to hold English Canada responsible for Facebook's service and community standards.

[garbon]

Those kind of comments are standard on just about any topic.

Also, it's a bit of a stretch to hold English Canada responsible for Facebook's service and community standards.

They are in on the conspiracy. It was part of an earlier mission statement drafted by Zuckerberg.

[crazy canuck]

Its hard to tell what might be motivating someone who writes in a comment.  Even harder to try to understand why anyone would read them.  Still harder to comprehend how anyone could make generalized assumptions about a linquistic group from such comments.

it's the fact they are considered acceptable from "respected" newspapers like the Globe&Mail and National Post more than the comments in themselves.

You really think the Editorial Board of the Globe is taking an active hand at reading and "accepting" the comments?  Really?

[viper37]

Maybe they improved. It's been 12 years or so.

not really, no.  Montrealers are the worst drivers of the province, and confusing road signs on the island and surrounding areas doesn't help one bit.

[Grey Fox]

We're the best drivers. It takes skills to navigate those roads!

[viper37]

You really think the Editorial Board of the Globe is taking an active hand at reading and "accepting" the comments?  Really?

La Presse, Le Devoir, le Journal de Montréal/Québec, Radio-Canada, they all have people reviewing comments posted on their boards.

Besides, I'm pretty sure there are people who select wich letters appear in their comments page, on their print edition.  I don't believe for a minute they are randomly selected.  Not for the Quebec newspapers I read on a regular basis, at the very least.

[crazy canuck]

You really think the Editorial Board of the Globe is taking an active hand at reading and "accepting" the comments?  Really?

La Presse, Le Devoir, le Journal de Montréal/Québec, Radio-Canada, they all have people reviewing comments posted on their boards.

They dont review the comments to censor, they review to enforce whatever online policies they have.  Put it this way Viper, would you really be in favour of a news site censoring points of view they dont agree with?

[viper37]

They dont review the comments to censor, they review to enforce whatever online policies they have.  Put it this way Viper, would you really be in favour of a news site censoring points of view they dont agree with?

I am in favour of a fair policy.  Let's put it that way: what are the odds that I could post an anti-semitic comment on the National Post?  Or that I could blame a particular riot on "niggers who sits on their asses all day long" on the Globe&Mail?  What are the odds the Toronto Sun would let a comment slip by where I say it's a good thing there's a flood in Calgary, so that the more Albertans are drowned the better the country will be?

It will be censored.

But if it's against Quebec, it ain't.

And we got editorials&columns like I previously posted.  Regularly.  Heck, a columnist of the National Post blamed law 101 and the racism of Quebecois for the Polytechnique and Dawson College shootout.  Let's try something like that in a Quebec newspaper next time there's shootout in Toronto, blaming the Ontarians for not integrating their immigrants and disrespecting them.

[crazy canuck]

Viper do you not see the difference between someone usingl a racial slur and a comment about politics in Quebec?

[viper37]

Viper do you not see the difference between someone usingl a racial slur and a comment about politics in Quebec?

I do, but I'm not sure you do...

[crazy canuck]

 

Go on then Viper.  Educate me.

[garbon]

Yahoo news would have all of them.

[LaCroix]

who really cares about language? i mean, besides the obvious

[garbon]

who really cares about language? i mean, besides the obvious

Were you drunk when you made this insightful post?

[HVC]

who really cares about language? i mean, besides the obvious

Were you drunk when you made this insightful post?

there are no points except the obvious points