Daily Archives: February 12, 2010

Familiar Figures At Twain House Event

Steve Courtney, who has just been taken on full time as a publicist at The Mark Twain House, sends notice of this event, which includes appearances by Courant Editor Naedine Hazell and Mark Pazniokas of CTMirror.org. “The Death of My News May Be Greatly Exaggerated,” a Collaboration with Connecticut Public Broadcasting-CPN/WNPR, Includes Screening of Important [...]

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Chris Tolles, Topix CEO, Doesn’t Get It

This is classic Chris Tolles, CEO of the infamous Topix comment boards. Rather than take heed of the shot fired over his bow, he accuses the attorneys general of two states — who are responding to the complaints of no doubt dozens of ordinary readers — of “grandstanding.” I have spoken to Tolles on the [...]

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Topix Finds A New Low

Topix, the  Darth Vader of the Internet Comment World, has apparently evolved its notion of community policing of hateful speech by making people pay to remove defamatory posts. George Gombossy’s CTWatchdog site has the details. Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and Kentucky’s AG Jack Conway are both on the case. Here’s their letter of complaint: topixletter [...]

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