But news executives say that merely making the demand for a name and an e-mail address would weed out much of the most offensive commentary.
The administration's Web team has a YouTube channel, but it is already exhibiting the dangers for a White House in the Wild West of the Internet: a page showing Mr. Obama's inauguration address is littered with offensive commentary from users.
Curt Schilling, a former All-Star pitcher and one of the highest-profile baseball analysts on ESPN, was fired from the network Wednesday, a day after he drew intense criticism for promoting offensive commentary on social media.
Among the services the company and others like it provide is a computer application that searches social media sites that athletes frequent, looking for obscenities, offensive commentary or words like "free," which could indicate that a player has accepted a gift in violation of N.C.A.A. rules.
At their worst, they would delve into other sorts of offensive commentary, or even racist remarks.
"I have no malicious intention towards the #POTUS, and apologize to all for my lack of judgement and offensive commentary.
We were hesitant to comment publicly, especially in light of the offensive commentary and death threats aimed at Sandra Fluke for her advocacy regarding birth control at Georgetown University.
If they did, maybe they would have discovered the problematic attitudes of officers like those in San Francisco before their offensive commentary made national headlines.
The complainant to the Guardian said: "They still post only extremely biased, offensive, trolling commentary – including insulting your correspondent, Luke Harding, whom they libel as a 'Russian hater' and mock as 'Luke Happyman'".
But if inviting Nugent to become an Abbott surrogate was so clever, why did likely Republican presidential hopeful Rand Paul step forward to denounce Nugent and his "offensive" Obama commentary?
