On Friday, Gawker Media announced that it will now review all user comments before they are posted.

 

The decision was made after Gawker-owned site Jezebel, a feminist blog, complained that its parent company was not doing enough to deal with the issue of "violent pornography" and "gory images of bloody injuries" that were being uploaded by commenters on a daily basis.

 

"This practice is profoundly upsetting to our commenters who have the misfortune of starting their day with some excessively violent images, to casual readers who drop by to skim Jezebel with their morning coffee only to see hard core pornography at the bottom of a post about Michelle Obama, and especially to the staff, who are the only ones capable of removing the comments and are thus, by default, now required to view and interact with violent pornography and gore as part of our jobs," Jezebel staff wrote on their site. "None of us are paid enough to deal with this on a daily basis."