Conclusion #1
Online news sites should allow anonymous comments. The Huffington Post is attempting to counter them, and they will most likely suffer from negative consequences. Abandoning the anonymous commenting system just because of the minority of people who 'troll' cannot be seen as the best choice, in the aspect that the news should most indefinitely respect peoples' freedom of speech above all. Someone will always be offended. The news might as well guarantee its readers their freedom of speech without them having to fear for an offensive e-mail or maybe even their lives.
Conclusion #2
The Huffington Post and other news websites are attempting to counter anonymous comments, and unfortunately for them, they will most likely suffer from negative consequences. In the long term, abandoning the anonymous commenting system just because of the minority of people who write comments that are plain revolting cannot be seen as the best choice. It cannot be seen so especially in the aspect that the news should most indefinitely respect peoples' freedom of speech above all. If news sites were to implement the anonymous commenting system, its users will be able to post their opinions freely, and interact with one another, the journalists, and thus the news site itself. Any other way to promote what online news networks really exist for, and the levels of communication they are capable of, can limit what people 'really' have to say. Inevitably news articles, and from a larger scope, readers' perspectives on certain topics, will be restricted. From then, who knows where 'freedom of speech' will end up? The news might as well guarantee its readers their freedom of speech without them having to fear for an offensive e-mail or maybe even their lives.
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