The Twitterverse has been aflame all week with outraged tweeters denouncing the editorial which was scheduled to be published in Sunday's New York Times print issue (March 20). A somewhat cursory scan doesn’t find even twenty comments that endorse what was said by the New York Times Editorial Board, whose hallowed byline the piece carries. This led me to compare and contrast the open-sesame rules for participating in Twitter.com with these smarmy and constricted rules of engagement for New York Times comments:Damn! The Berkeley Daily Planet has always been open to all kinds of opinions, especially now that it’s almost all opinions all the time. Public opinion on the topic has shifted somewhat since then, but it’s still the proverbial third rail.

Source: New York Times April 08, 2022 20:07 UTC