Reading response to “Make Our Ugly Discourse Better: Join the Civilogue” and “ Why I like vicious, anonymous online comments”

With a growing popularity of internet posting, commenting, tweeting, or simply stating what is on your mind people are able to give their own personal opinion publicly through websites such as blogger.com, twitter.com, Facebook.com, myspace.com and many other sites like these. The problem with all of these sites is the fact that they are not all completely censored. People all over the world can post violent and vulgar language at any moment for any one to see. Matt Zoller Seitz points out very specific inappropriate language posted on websites such as Salon.com in his article “Why I like vicious, anonymous online comments”. People drop the F-bomb like it is a new trend in the very extreme quotes he uses in his article. Seitz made it very clear that he was not offended by the “vicious” comments but he points out that these comments are made public due to the lack of censorship on the fairly new Internet that has become a household item for most people around the world. The fact that these comments are filled with profanity allows for people to have little to no fear of consequence. With the little regulation on the Internet people have began to create fantasized identities by acting, saying and doing certain things on the Internet.

Another account of this “political nastiness” is expressed in the article, “Make Our Ugly Disclosure Better: Join the Civilogue”. In this particular article the focus has shifted from inappropriate, fantasized identities the Internet provides to “political nastiness”.  I found it interesting how the author does NOT ask for people to correct others politically but requests for people to give an alternative view in a political manner by commenting in these controversial posts in the political field. There has to be “Action!” taken in order for people to completely understand the dynamics of politics not only in the united states but all over the world. These points of view allow for people all over the world to have many perspectives at the tips of their fingers provided by the all so amazing Internet.