For those Daily Advance readers that only read the print edition, you really are missing out on a true treasure — the reader comments on The Daily Advance’s website. There you can make up your own facts and expound hatred, bigotry, and ignorance. And the best part? You don’t even have to use your real name. You get to hide behind pseudonyms.
In all seriousness though, we can accept that readers of The Daily Advance have varying opinions and we will not always agree with each other. Those that want to exercise their First Amendment rights are, without a doubt, free to do so. However, there is a exponentially huge difference between those who will put their name to their opinions and those that will cowardly hide behind a cheesy Web name they alone probably thought was clever.
The worth of your words is determined by your willingness to be accountable for those words — and for many of those on the message boards, that equates to zero. It’s just a shame they are given such a public platform to show that worth to the rest of us.
ADAM SWAIN
Elizabeth City
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Some of the greatest
Some of the greatest literature in the world came from authors using a pseudonym; fiction and non-fiction. I am not a great writer but I do have a mind and with it an opinion that is frequently different from the articles I read. I will coninue to write my opinions and I will continue to remain anonymous.
Anonymity Not All Bad
Why not have the police publish the names of their informants? Why allow hot lines for crimes and government waste to be reported? Retaliation is real and no law can stop it from happening to whistle blowers and we need whistle blowers. More anonymous letter/comment writers to TDA would help us all get a better sense of how the community/area feels.
Plus!
Liberty Belle is exactly right! Also, when I signed up for the online content at the DA's changeover from free access I was not aware that the "sign in" would be used as the identifier in the "comments" section. This was just prior to it being part of your paid subscription and it was a simple sign in "username". Along with that, and this strays from the letter writers concerns, if you write a "letter to the editor" and your opinion differs with the "editor" or you address his perceived shortcomings, there is a good chance it will not get published. I know this as fact! I have had this happen more than once. Using the comments section allows free expression without suppression from the editor.
Ben Franklin wrote under pseudonyms.
First, I am willing to post under my name. In fact, I have asked the Daily Advance to move to a policy requiring actual names and not pseudonyms. Second, it isn't cowardess that drives the use of the pseudonym, but a time honored tradition of allowing a person use of more direct speech that would be less acceptable in polite face to face conversation. For instance, I have chided Rev. Barber, head of the state NAACP, for doing NOTHING to fight black gangs and have asked him how a hands off policy on black crime works for the "advancement of colored people?" It's a fair question, but I feel safer asking it if I am free from a possible retaliatory "drive by." However, if the Daily Advance does move to require use of names I will likely make the same statements and hope for the best.
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