Fania Oz-Salzberger: The democratization of evil
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Title:Well of course here in the UK we have online debates, whereas...
Name:Don Camillo
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whereas on this site you get exactly the kind of racist and islamophobic offensiveness that would be banned on most reasonable sites by the website moderators.

This is not a puritanical note but ensures that what does filter through is quality debate - posters are obliged to make a reasoned point or challenge another point with a reasoned alternative view because rabid ACCUSATIONS OR ABUSE BY SHOUTING!!!!!!! is not allowed.

If Ha`aretz actually employed a moderator to screen out racist, antisemitic, islamophobic and abusive posts we could actually have a reasoned, mature and helpful debate.

But because Ha`aretz won`t, then those of us who disagree with nationalistic Zionism must continue to suffer villification, venom and personal attacks.

Is this what the quality of debate in yourcountry has come to?