Jack Kemp

American Thinker announced a new techical system which will somehow route its comments through social media. Readers have been outraged, myself included, for various reasons. One is that the technical system AT wants to adapt is flawed. The other main reason is that the commenters will lose privacy from the more liberal members of their family. And my criticisms (referencing Robert Spencer's criticisms of Facebook censorship of he and others) are listed in this short exchange of comments at Amer. Thinker, copied below.

JackKemp • 2 hours ago

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I fear this new comment system will be to American Thinker what Common Core is to education. Judging from other early comments here, this new system could be an overcomplicated kludge. Why do I have to log on or link through Facebook or a Twitter? Does Mark Zuckerberg have conservatives' best interests at heart?

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Stacey le Deplorable repies to JackKemp • an hour ago
Part of the benefit of not having to use a social media account is to have some of your thoughts and comments not as well linked to you or your real identity, and depending upon your associations this might be a necessary thing; we don't sometimes wish brain-damaged leftist family members and coworkers reading our real thoughts and positions. Not all of us have social media accounts either; and possibly for the reason I mentioned above. I personally have no use for some short shot drivel of twitter. Force me to log in via social media and you won't likely ever see me comment again; after about a decade of activity.

JackKemp replies to Stacey le Deplorable • a few seconds ago
Yes, Stacey. And I just read a timely article by Robert Spencer at Townhall.com where he points out links to his websites appear obviously to be censored by Facebook, people who wrote about the link between jihad and the Orlando gay nightclub massacre to have been censored by Facebook and other totalitarian practices by so-called "social media." Facebook has openly agreed to enforce the European Union's policies (diktats) of censoring any anti-Muslim criticism of terrorist acts. You can read Spencer's full article at https://townhall.com/column..
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So essentially, American Thinker may now institute - via indirect methods - European Union censorship of these message boards. Hitler, Stalin and the Ayatollah Khomeni would be so proud.
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