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Senator Proposes Registration For Online Commenting

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A member of the Seanad yesterday has proposed that anonymous comments should be banned on the internet.
Ned O’Sullivan has said that he wants websites for force registration on the users before they are allowed to comment on posts in a bid to clamp down on the abusive comments and trolling against politicians and other people in the public eye.
He commented that newspapers don’t publish anonymous letters so websites shouldn’t either. “There should be some form of registration and identification” he said about those who want to participate in political and other discussions on websites and social networks that don’t require online registration.
“People in our business are advised not to question the media,” he began, “but I would like to see a debate here … on the online newspaper business, and in particular the manner in which [they] provide a facility for nameless, anonymous commentators to be very critical, sometimes quite abusive of politicians in general.”

“These kind of anorak-type bloggers that appear all over the place on whatever is the issue of the day, sometimes their comments can be verging on the abusive – in terms of their language and their personal criticisms of people’s appearance and so on and so forth,” he said.
“I’d like to have that debated, and I’d like to see the journals in question participating in that debate.”

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