Muzzling the readership or enhancing the discussion?
On Wednesday, February 8, the comments section on NZZ.ch will be disabled for most articles. Instead, there will be reader and author discussions in the future.
In future, it will no longer be possible to comment freely on online articles published by NZZ.ch (Werbewoche reported). The commentary function will be replaced by three moderated daily debates on selected topics. The NZZ's reasoning is long and comprehensible for the most part. Anyone who takes a look at the comments under online articles on relevant topics such as migration may feel uneasy. There is a lot to read that can hardly be beaten in terms of quality and truthfulness. Maintaining netiquette in this environment is not a nice job, but it is an even more time-consuming one for editors and journalists. Nevertheless, the question remains: does it make sense to curate the discussion options? Or would censoring be the more appropriate word?
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