Roger G.

Is Microsoft a supporter of Putin or something? Ninety percent of the stories on MSN news now is about Russia and Ukraine and they will not allow comments on any of those stories. Make a complaint about this on another story on the site and they remove it, supposedly for violating their terms. It's pretty disturbing how many dot coms and social media sites do not believe in free speech anymore. Do not believe a word that they say, it's not about removing trolls or making their sites less toxic, the power has gone to their heads and they want to control what people think and say.

Engadget and Verge are the same thing, trying to push electric vehicles, push for the elimination of any and everything oil or natural gas, trying to influence political views without doing any research. It all gets aggravating, especially when you consider how dogmatic and uninformed they are about the things they are pushing. As hard as it is to believe, the two sites keep going more hard left as time goes on and it's beginning to get comical. One of the Verge's latest articles was about how warehouses need to get rid of natural gas. I mean, it's getting to the point where it's just getting ridiculous now and may get people hurt. They have this belief that everything oil and natural gas is horrible but don't believe that if they got their way and everything went electric vehicle, battery and renewable that the people running those companies won't be every bit as "evil" as the oil companies.

It's funny because The Verge and Engadget are basically the only two blogs that have any decent tech news, so I'm starting to suspect this is being done for a reason. It's kind of pathetic what the tech companies think they can do with their money and influence.

Recently tested Logan and Terminator 3 between all my streaming services. Started with Logan because I had heard someone say Apple's streaming was better. The Itunes version was much crispier, brighter and colorful than the Vudu version. I played the opening scene on Vudu, played it again on Itunes, and then back. It was not my imagination.

I tested Terminator 3. I played the opening nuke explosion on my PC on Itunes. I noticed that the explosion sound was very defined and crisp compared to what I'd heard streaming Vudu for years. It was what I remembered from the theater and playing the DVD fifteen years ago. When I went to my TV and played it on Vudu, the sound was incredibly flat and lifeless. I thought that maybe it was my headphones that created the rumbling sound effect. Nope, when I turned on Itunes and Movies Anywhere, the nuke rumbled again.

Very disappointed. Have a large library on this site, some that isn't Movies Anywhere. I'll just have to buy the movies that aren't on the other services again when they're cheap. That's a shame.

Like seriously, can we do something about the people in Silicon Valley and their power trips? The power has gone to their head and they think they can tell the rest of the world how to think. Like seriously, you run an app and a website, get real. Most of these apps or sites started out really cool and operated like a free-for-all, now the minute you insult someone correctly for being stupid, they want to ban you.

Enough is enough. Seriously. Something has got to be done. Texas did the right thing outlawing this nonsense. I hope other states follow.

Whenever I get into an argument about COVID, 9 times out of 10, it comes from Facebook and is easily debunked. It's a haven for uneducated working class rural types who had poor educations, hate science and hate teachers and professors. Even worse, because this information is coming from Faceboook, people think it somehow gives it credibility. I have no idea how this is allowed, it's crazy. It's literally one of the worst sites ever created.

Absolutely scary channel. Examples of hypocrisy are downright easy to find and blatant. It's worse than Fox. Much worse. Fox was never even bad. I lived somewhere liberal. Everything Fox says about the left is true. MSNBC comes off as a total propaganda network. They're not the good guys. I mean, they even advocate removing politicians from office and cancelling anyone who doesn't agree with the left. I never heard Fox EVER advocate anything like that.

I really think it's time big money in this country started cutting Silicon Valley and the Pacific Northwest down to size. They've gotten way too powerful. Even the Communist Chinese don't like them. The best thing to do would be to slowly move these companies to other states because for whatever reason, the local weirdo culture of the Left Coast cities slowly infiltrates these companies and ruins them. Governments in different countries are already taking steps to reduce their power and it's long overdue. I won't lie, Facebook, Google, reddit, Yahoo, were all fun to use at the very beginning, back in the nineties and 2000s. Over time, when they didn't have anymore competition, they started to try to suppress conservative views and push liberal views. They showed their true colors. No one's buying it! They just refuse to get it.

Everyone I know is getting banned by these sites. How are they staying in business? It really sucks. If someone could create a message board and social media site where the mods stay out of your business unless you're breaking the law, that would be awesome. Seriously.

Kind of liked this site until COVID happened. All the wacky COVID conspiracists came out and the site went downhill. I mean, some of these guys were just insane, with posts beyond easy to refute. One even told me Australia couldn't even handle COVID in spite of wearing masks, socially distancing and locking down, which was easily countered by a few links laughably proving how ignorant he was.

That's what I had to deal with on this site. I basically got ganged up on and while defending myself, the mod joined in and threatened to ban me. I know, 100% of the time, once that happens, you're getting banned anyways, so I let loose on him.

The site is basically deserted. On the front page, most posts have less than 10 responses, and 10 is a fantastic response there. I barely went on there, but the site had so much promise, it's a shame. I think a lot of posters deserted earlier but I was swamped with work so I didn't have the time to pay attention.

Getting really tired of these fascist Bay Area, West Coast tech companies censoring comments they don't like. These sites started off really cool at first back in the 2000s. There was little moderation, if any, they wanted you to use their site and have fun. Sometime around like 2012, 2013, things started to change, and moderation at these sites got really ridiculous. They value stupid people more than they value intelligent people, especially those who work. If you get into an argument and tell off someone who doesn't have their facts straight, you get punished for it. I've run into some really stupid people who didn't have their facts together. Lay the evidence on them and tell them off, and not long after, you get banned. I feel like I'm in Kindergarten.

The major problem with many of these sites is that when they realize they have no competition, the power gets to their heads and they feel like they can decide what you're allowed to say. The anti-masker stuff is proven wrong and stupid, I don't have a problem with that stuff being removed. Problem is, notorious anti-maskers and COVID hoaxers are allowed to remain on Youtube and Facebook, like Clay Travis and Outkick, but if you criticize politically correct nonsense, they ban you. They basically punish you by banning you without warning, taking all your subs and friends down with it, not even offering you a chance to get a copy. All because you didn't appeal to their liberal, "let's all be friends" San Francisco baloney.

Many of these sites treat their content creators even worse. You will hear decent guys complain all the time that their videos were demonetized. It's just silly. They have no competition and get away with murder. It really is time for Congress and Anti-trust to do something about it. And for the love of God, get these tech firms out of the Bay Area. The area is a big part of the reason the moderation at these sites is so weird.

I just posted a review of "Elvis" last week. I think, for the first time ever, I had the majority of readers agree with it and it was getting popular. I logged into IMDB only to find my review was totally removed. There was nothing controversial about it, nothing remotely offensive, I simply described why I did not like the movie. IMDB made it disappear. I won't be surprised if they make my "Prey" review disappear too.

I mean, this is a movie review site. The minute you start making reviews disappear because you didn't agree with them is the minute your site loses any and all credibility. Simply put, you cannot trust this site anymore. It's not what it used to be. There are plenty of uncensored social media sites we are allowed to express our views on, so good luck with this strategy guys.

ESPN has a serious problem when it comes to pushing politics in their programming. Not only do people not want to hear it, they push political views that only the uninformed and the fringe would accept, and they try to make it seem like it's the norm. They're really looking to start a huge row with their viewers when the sports seasons resume and I just don't know why they're going to do that, especially when they know better.

Maybe it's time to get rid of the Ivy League leftists and find people who want to talk about sports, that's just a thought. It seems like a lot of their reporters are bitter about not getting a job with regular news media outlets and are using ESPN to audition for those positions. It's getting nutty now.

All TMZ did was try to put out story after story to make the riots worse and eventually, people got tired of it and started calling out their hypocrisy. The Karen stories started getting really bad and hypocritical too. The comments were overwhelming against TMZ and their reporting and unsurprisingly, they eliminated the comments and presumably will move to a system like The Verge, Engadget, Reddit and Facebook and only only liberal points of view to be heard. It's always funny, the left always talks about "open dialogue" and "conversations", but only as long as it's about things they agree with. No surprise, nothing ever gets fixed when they're in charge.

They will now get 10 comments a story and pass it off like it's the will of the people. Not sure who they are fooling.

Yeah, Evan Perez and Jason Hoffman wrote an absurd article stating Trump's declaration that Antifa was a terrorist organization was "unconstitutional", claimed the extreme right-wing was behind some of the rioting(false). The press really needs to be cleaned up of some of the immature, juvenile staff they have. No one is fooled by them anymore. Hint, do some quick research of the writers to find out what they're really about before taking them seriously.

Who hasn't gone through this song and dance before?

You go to sell an item on ebay, and usually, it's always the popular stuff that gets the worst buyers. You get a large amount for your item and think, "Great, that's out of the way." Then the buyer, probably some 14-year-old kid or deadbeat, either refuses to pay or wants to wait until payday. So you're waiting a week or so to get payment from some dirtbag because you just don't know if he will come up with the money and you have to give them the product.

Amazon doesn't work like this. Wal-Mart doesn't work like this. Best Buy doesn't work like this. Craiglist doesn't work like this. I just can't understand how someone who bid on an item and won doesn't have the money come out of their account away. That's just ridiculous. Worse yet, they basically have no competition so they can get away with this.

I will try to sell my used stuff on Amazon from now on, to be honest.

Tried to write a review for two of their Prime Original TV shows that were negative and not only did they find an excuse not to post it, they then BANNED me from ever posting another one. So basically you can't trust the reviews on here, which is a shame. They lure you in the first season and then drastically cut the budget next season as a bait and switch. Terrible way to produce TV shows.

Of course, Amazon has to ruin everything they get their hands on. Box Office Mojo used to be a great site. I think IMDB and Amazon owned it before, but I think a few months ago, the whole site design changed for the worst. Was looking at box office information for Star Wars Rise of Skywalker and it was just unusable. All the franchise comparison information is now locked behind IMDB pro and much of what you could find on the site is probably easier to find on Google search.

Not sure why they are doing this other than out of pure greed. I used to love this site, now I don't ever go on it again. What a shame.

Exasperating to read. If you make a colloquialism that insinuates any kind of an insult towards a sexual orientation or race, they act like it was a war crime. Seinfeld pretty much complains about not being able to do college shows anymore because the students are completely indoctrinated with the "woke" nonsense and it makes it almost impossible to make anyone laugh anymore. So in the Dana Carvey episode of "Comedians in Cars Drinking Coffee", he set a trap, in my opinion, having Dana Carvey play the guitar somewhere in Hollywood at a store and makes what some would perceive to be a homophobic comment. Predictably, in their review, Eater lost their mind and jumped all over him for every instance in the season he used the term. All because it was some fun banter between him and Carvey. Then like your typical Marxists, they took offense to Lavazza and their product placement.

It's sad, this site feels like they're shaming Seinfeld but in reality, they're embarrassing themselves. Did the parents of these writers ever tell them at some point to get over themselves and quit whining like mine did? It's ridiculous.

There are much better sites out there, thankfully. Avoid this one.

I used to like coming here, even if the pro-gun nonsense was ridiculous. I could discuss things freely here that I couldn't do so on other sites. Then one day, I was banned immediately after talking to another poster that was a black conservative. As usual for these dot-coms, any request for information regarding my banning was ignored. It's just another lame high school lunch table board run by brats who ban you because you looked at them the wrong way. The internet used to be great until the punks running these boards let the power get to their heads. Even Breitbart is getting in on the ban happy game. It's a shame. The people running these boards don't realize that the more people you ban, the faster you turn your site into a graveyard when posters stop going. Same thing happened to RealGM. It makes no sense.

Am I tired of the SJW nonsense on ESPN, Deadspin, SB Nation and most major spors media? Yes, absolutely.

Barstool on the other hand is the other extreme. It's a major step backward. It's where sports reporting shouldn't go. It's trashy. Look at the front page of the website, it's a hot mess.

I'm a minority. I consider myself fairly conservative, but I don't feel welcome looking at Barstool's content. Where are the minorities on this site? I hate using this term, but the whole channel is totally "white privilege."

I just don't even know how people can find this entertaining. I am listening to the founder's story on HBO and it's very clear he came from money to be able to get all this started, and he acts like it. Worst of all, the whole enterprise is out of Boston, which is strike three from me.

If everyone could just come back to the center in sports reporting, that would be great. Just being honest.

I have been banned from reddit a few times, mostly due to arguments with little children on there. I unwisely took a new account and decided to start making a few comments with it. Like clockwork, got a hugely nasty response from a poster, which tends to happen whenever you start using a new message board for some reason. I knew where this was going, so I engaged the person and their friends. I'm 40 and have lived and worked life, so I embarrassed a few and blocked one guy who just wouldn't let up but wouldn't admit he didn't know what he was talking about.

I proceeded to try and comment on a few other sites and basically was karma-blocked from posting. Basically, because people downvoted my comments on the first board, I wasn't allowed to comment on others. Somehow or the other, I think it was worldnews, figured out I was using an alternate account to comment and banned me, followed by reddit banning the account completely.

Imagine being banned from Wal-Mart for going to customer service for a regular problem and then trying to shop there again and patronize them, only to get banned again simply for just shopping. That's reddit's problem. It's not a public website anymore. It's a club, even though reddit would thrive with more users. There are so many rules, so many nasty users that it's impossible to use.

The moderators especially are out of control. I said to myself that moderators on all message boards need some oversight from people who own the site. They should be actively punished for banning people who aren't bots. Site owners should look up any mod who has unusually high ban numbers and evaluate them. If they are trying to be tyrants and are banning people undeservingly, they should not be allowed to moderate anymore. So many of them think they are dictators and enjoy abusing their power. This is a business, not a high school lunch table. Reddit needs to start acting like it's a business and encourage people to patronize it.

It was a great site while it lasted. Unfortunately, the white supremacist nonsense started getting really overbearing. It doesn't help that most are pro-gun nuts too. I'm fine with them expressing their second amendment beliefs but after the umpteenth ignorant post about keeping Europe and America "pure", bashing interracial marriage and advocating violence, I had enough and left. Most of the posters seemed like they were teenagers getting their angst out.

They have a hard time getting funding, and in spite of my best efforts to encourage users to curb their bad behavior to get the site taken more seriously, I failed. Not much else I can do. I would not be shocked to see it disappear one day. It's time for it to go.