Conn. newspapers ban word 'fracking' in reader comments

[Newsjock]

http://jimromenesko.com/2012/10/17/hearst-site-bans-the-word-fracking-in-comments/

Anti-fracking activist Sharon Wilson — “likely the only person in Texas who gets paid for helping Texans who are negatively effected by oil and gas development” — tips Romenesko readers off to Hearst Connecticut Media Group’s ban on the word fracking in the comments section.

In an email to Wilson, executive producer Mickelson acknowledges that “there is nothing unsettling about the word ‘fracking,’ and it is an important issue in current events [but] that doesn’t stop others from using the term inappropriately in an entirely different context.”

Wilson’s reaction: “Fracking is a real word. It is used by real — often angry — people to describe impacts to their vital natural resources, health and long-term well-being. …Banning all comments using the word fracking effectively prevents a large segment of the populace from exercising their First Amendment right.”

[Rosco T.]

1. Phrackin'

sounds the same, bypass their censors

[hughee99]

2. Fracking assholes! n/t

[Politicalboi]

3. We should do this with the word

Cancer too. I guess if we don't talk about it, it goes away.

[yellowcanine]

4. Frack that!

[AndyTiedye]

5. They Can Go Frack Themselves

Would it get through if you wrote it this way? ƒ®ª¢k