From the AP..

“..ombudsman Deborah Howell wrote that Abramoff “had made substantial campaign contributions to both major parties,” prompting a wave of nasty reader postings on post.blog. There were so many personal attacks that the newspaper’s staff could not “keep the board clean, there was some pretty filthy stuff,” and so the Post shut down comments on the blog, or Web log, said Jim Brady, executive editor of washingtonpost.com.”

Both AOL and Yahoo have had to deal with this stuff for years now. News Corp will probably run into a few big bumps in the road in 2007 thanks to MySpace. Despite some skepticism I have, I believe that big corporations will do just fine (until a billion dollar class action suit comes along.)