What “community standards” did this comment breach? #17

The following comments – sent in by one of our readers, 0use4msm – were censored by the Guardian. Which of the well-publicised CiF “community standards” did they breach?

Removed comments, posted under the opinion piece “Aggression, abuse and addiction: we need a social media detox”:

The article was published at 6.00am yesterday morning – August 4th – its comment section was closed by 4pm.

Screen shot of where they used to be:

• Do they “misrepresent the Guardian and its journalists”?
• Are they “persistent trolling or mindless abuse”?
• Are they “spam-like”? Or “obviously commercial”?
• Are they “racism, sexism, homophobia or hate-speech”?
• Are they “extremely offensive of threatening?”?
• Are they “flame-wars based on ingrained partisanship or generalisations”?
• Are they not “relevant”?

If none of the above – why was it taken down?

see our archive of censored comments. And if you see any egregious examples of the Guardian censoring its “free” comment sections – email us at [email protected], and send us screen caps if possible

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