Why are MSN comments so overly censored?

Mitchell,

You are giving guidance to people, then people are telling you that when they do what you suggest, the link is broken and it just gives you the run around. One used to be able to contact microsoft, now we can not. <removed> Thank you.

There are two ways to submit feedback to or ask for help from MSN:

1. The Feedback link that's on nearly every MSN webpage.
2. Edge > 3 dots > Edge > Help and feedback > Send feedback.

There is not a phone number or an email address.

Commenting on MSN articles is currently shut down completely, is it not?

Don

This happens to me all the time. It's so frustrating. It has nothing to do with partisanship and everything to do with how they set the sensitivity. I have written countless rational logical sentences and there is still something MSN doesn't like. I wish they'd just issue specific guidelines if they're going to be so incredibly sensitive. We're on different sides but MSN is just horrible for commenting.

My newsfeed is, on any given day, 20%+ filled with tremendously biased articles about "gender identity." MSN literally blocked the words "biology" and "DSM-13," (BOTH words that are very germane to the conversation) in the comments. On an article that falsely claimed that the side-effects of gender transition were in youth were "mild", the word "sterilization" (one the most egregious proven side-effects) was banned as well as the phrase "side-effect" (!!!) when paired with "gender affirming care." Why would that be???

An article panning Ivermectin as strictly a veterinary drug and making thinly vailed implications that the drug is detrimental for human use (the Nobel Prize in 2015 was awarded as a result of the use of Ivermectin as a worldwide life-saving treatment in cases of malaria), the word "vaccine" was restricted in the comments. Why would that be???

It's quite clear that "certain comments" are being restricted along ideological lines on topics that should be defined by robust discourse, not censorship. It's preposterous to reply with an invitation for feedback when the standards applied to the comment sections under MSN articles are sweeping and obviously working as MSN intended. The algorithm restricts and weeds out cogent rebuttals to hot button social and political topics.

Fix the algorithm to allow for the free exchange of ideas.

Sorry but you aren't communicating with MSN here. No one here can tell you why a comment was blocked. 

No one here can "Fix the algorithm."

Here's the relevant part of my canned response on moderation. Please see, in particular, point 4.

4. Moderation is a dysfunctional mess. It's being done via AI, via a bot, not 

humans and is random and inexplicable.

Don

My newsfeed is, on any given day, 20%+ filled with tremendously biased articles about "gender identity." MSN literally blocked the words "biology" and "DSM-13," (BOTH words that are very germane to the conversation) in the comments. On an article that falsely claimed that the side-effects of gender transition were in youth were "mild", the word "sterilization" (one the most egregious proven side-effects) was banned as well as the phrase "side-effect" (!!!) when paired with "gender affirming care." Why would that be???

An article panning Ivermectin as strictly a veterinary drug and making thinly vailed implications that the drug is detrimental for human use (the Nobel Prize in 2015 was awarded as a result of the use of Ivermectin as a worldwide life-saving treatment in cases of malaria), the word "vaccine" was restricted in the comments. Why would that be???

It's quite clear that "certain comments" are being restricted along ideological lines on topics that should be defined by robust discourse, not censorship. It's preposterous to reply with an invitation for feedback when the standards applied to the comment sections under MSN articles are sweeping and obviously working as MSN intended. The algorithm restricts and weeds out cogent rebuttals to hot button social and political topics.

Fix the algorithm to allow for the free exchange of ideas.