By MintPress News Desk
May 27, 2016
MINNEAPOLIS — In yet another sign of the divisive nature of the 2016 race to the White House, in which both parties are struggling to unite behind their presumptive nominees, a popular liberal website wants to cut down on attacks on Hillary Clinton by Bernie Sanders supporters.
Markos Moulitsas, the founder and editor-in-chief of the Daily Kos, a liberal blogging site which supports the Democratic Party, told the site’s users in March that the site would soon be transitioning to “General Election footing.”
According to his blog post, this meant bloggers would be banned from making “attacks on Hillary Clinton using right-wing tropes of sources.”
“She’s had 30 years of bullshit flung at her from the Right, there’s no need to have Daily Kos give them an assist,” Moulitsas wrote.
“Constructive criticism from the Left is allowed,” he added, but cautioned that “if you’re resorting to cheap sloganeering like ‘oligarch’ or ‘warmonger’ or ‘neocon’, you might want to reframe your argument in a more substantive, issue-focused and constructive matter.”
Users are also banned from advocating for Jill Stein or other third-party candidates. “If that’s how you feel, but have other places in which you can be constructive on the site, then keep your presidential feelings to yourself.”
“Those of us who care about our country and it’s future are focused on victory,” he continued. “If you aren’t, then it’s a big internet, I suggest you find more hospitable grounds for your huffing, puffing, and stomping of feet.”
DAILYKOmradeS is nothing useful or new, except to the blue kool-Aid overdosers, so this isn’t surprising. They don’t care about actual free speech or thought–just what they want to hear in their own circle-jerk for Clinton.
I wonder how they can tell a part of their readers to keep their presidential feelings to themselves in a piece where the writer is sharing their presidential feelings.
Daily Kos is the Being Liberal of blogs. Censorship is rampant and rife with hypocrisy. Neither liked bipartisan support of Rand Paul’s stand against Obama’s drone wars.
In the minds of both, war crimes don’t exist when a Democrat occupies the White House.
Daily Kos is run by Clinton flacks. And they’ve always been Democrats and against all talk of any political action outside the Democratic Party.
The fact that they mentioned Jill Stein by name in the article is a good sign!
as they say “Statists gonna State” 😛
It looks as though BIG BROTHER has had a ‘facelift”!
The most scary part of an open door ISN’T who might get IN,
but WHO might get OUT!
Boo!!! Jill Stein is a better candidate than HRC.
“Those of us who care about our country and it’s future are focused on victory,” he continued. “If you aren’t, then it’s a big internet, I suggest you find more hospitable grounds for your huffing, puffing, and stomping of feet.”
Indeed, welcome all you former Kos readers to IPR.