Why does Discussionist still exist?
I haven't visited in many, many months. Maybe a year. My first post in as much time was removed, followed by a string 'libtard' and 'lefty' posts, and how we're all a bunch of losers. Don't they have Conservative Cave for that bullshit? Why are Skinner and Elad giving them their own hate forum?
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Acceptable to who? If you find it unacceptable, you should boycott DU.
Why would you think they would even wonder if it's acceptable? Couldn't possibly be because you find it unacceptable. 
Are they protected by the 1st Amendment? Absolutely.
Breitbart isnt a straight up parallel to discussionist, however, since DI is technically a message board and not a "news" source or even opinion outlet.
It's just a place where people post their opinions, like DU is. However, due to the lack of top-down administration there combined with a user moderation/jury system parallel to DU's AND the fact that it has become a collecting ground for DU's disgruntled ban-eees, it's apparently now domianted by right-wing voices, most particularly because those of us progressives from the early days who went over there from DU to check it out, got bored with it real quick.
So, yeah, it's been ceded to right-wing fuckbats, I guess.
And some people here are clamoring for admin to "shut it down", just as they've done on a regular basis ever since the thing started.
It's still there, despite demands from some here to the contrary, ergo Admin doesn't want to shut it down. They like the ad revenue, they like the fact that they have a collecting ground for the worst trolls from DU, maybe they like the fact that they can pinpoint IP addresses of the same for when those yarblockos inevitably try and skulk back onto this site. Maybe they see it as a safety valve. Maybe all, or none, of the above.
The bottom line is, just as with the perpetual outrage from some as to how THIS site is run (witness the long line of repeat customers in ATA with their multiple questions unanswered. I wonder what they say? 
) admin can do whatever they want. It's their site, so is DU. If people really find the fact that the admins of this site also oversee that one that objectionable, they can vote with their feet and leave both sites, but I notice that the people who have been complaining the most about DU for... shit, as long as I can remember--- for some reason, they never actually make good on their promises to take off. In fact, many of them do stuff like circumvent bans and the like with zombie accounts and sockpuppets.
Frankly, I don't understand it. 
What's wrong with making a little extra dosh off the perpetually-aggrieved dipshits on that side of the fence? More power to Skinner et al for creating a successful - if stupid - discussion board for morons and jackfuck radicals.
