If My Space.com was sued for damages, why not Yahoo.com, for allowing the same to possibly happen here?
This is just a question.
2006-06-22 04:05:38 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
I agree with you 100%!!
2006-06-22 04:10:01 · answer #1 · answered by christy 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Not me.
It's just like if the little kid said something of a sexual nature out loud, isn't it?
The only reason Myspace was sued is that they are a very high-profile website. Most concerned parents know about it, and about what some kids do on it, even though they are not Myspace users themselves. The only people who know how polluted Y! Answers has become are the answerers themselves (and the Y! staff) The Parental outcry hasn't come yet, but to make sure that it never arrives, I would reccomend that Y! run everything through a really good chat filter first, before it gets posted on the web.
That way, even if the kids didn't post it, they still can't see any sexual material at all.
2006-06-22 11:18:33 · answer #2 · answered by Duffy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The internet is a tool. How people use/abuse it is not in the providers control. If someone gets behind the wheel of a car and wrecklessly kills someone, should the car manufacturer be sued because they allowed a crazy person to drive their car? Should a tool company be sued because a minor took a hammer and killed someone?
I know the lawyers would love to see that, but hopefully, it hasn't come to that yet.
The 'controls' that the internet companies graciously 'offer' to 'protect' young people from perverts is really nothing more than an information gathering tool used to help identify the demographics of the people using the internet. That information is compiled and offered to potential advertisers. The price of the ads go up when advertisers can target their ads to known groups whose info has been collected while 'protecting' young people.
The hullaballoo about 'protecting' young people from perverts on the net is a carefully calculated marketing ploy to gather that information and sell it to advertisers (and homeland security?), and not only do people accept this as a necessary evil, they now DEMAND it! How easy it is to manipulate people.
By the way, there is really no way that anyone can ensure that a pervert isn't talking to a child on the internet. Think about it.
2006-06-22 11:19:51 · answer #3 · answered by cdb 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo cannot be held liable for content posted by users. They can however take action to block said users from accessing the site. For one, I don't understand why all those kids love MySpace so much and why in the world some 14 year old or 16 year old flew to Jordan to meet a MySpace contact... who was then intercepted by federal agents in Jordan and promptly returned home. What the heck ever happened to common sense? She deserved what she got, maybe that encounter with feds set her straight. If it didn't, I don't know what would.
2006-06-22 11:09:00 · answer #4 · answered by conradj213 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
While I agree with your point, I also agree with some of the others who say PARENTS need to keep better track of what their kids are doing. I don't even let my 13yr. old use the computer unless I'm in the room with her, period.
These computers are too often viewed by parents as alternative babysitters, much like TV, and I really find it pathetic that parents are allowing access without supervision. COMPLACENT PARENTS are the real problem, not necessarily Yahoo...just my opinion.
2006-06-22 23:54:07 · answer #5 · answered by JC 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think yahoo should be responsible and I don't think my space should be responsible either. I think the the parents of the minors and the minors themselves are responsible for their actions. The parents can monitor what a child is doing on the computer and there is programs that will not your child access certain web pages.
2006-06-22 11:47:05 · answer #6 · answered by Crazydays 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey how about we have the minor's parents get of their lazy asses and try monitoring their own kids. Why does everything always have to be someone elses fault? If you can't control what your kid does or trust him to do the right thing then take the damn computer away from him.
2006-06-22 11:09:32 · answer #7 · answered by gnomes31 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
myspace isnt at fault. they put up safety measures such as if your 14 or 15 you're profile is set to private and myspace advises people to be safe. yahoo shouldn't be liable for anything. bcuz they put up the rules, and stupid little 13 year olds who are obsessed with sex break them, just like on myspace. i think if you meet someone off of myspace and your 13 and the person you meets like in their 20's and he rapes the 13 year old... i blame the girl just as much bcuz shes fckin stupid.
2006-06-22 11:09:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
sonik_starz it doesn't matter if those types of questions aren't aren't allowed because people still ask them. I think something should be done about the children on this website and for now it should start with parents supervising their children until something else is done.
2006-06-22 11:15:24 · answer #9 · answered by Pretty Brown Eyes 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think there should be a separate "area" for anyone underage. But I do think it is alright for them to ask sexual questions, they are curious and they want to know, there is a line though when these questions become vulgar and disgusting something should be done about it.
2006-06-22 11:10:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you read the Community Guidelines, under Content & Usage you will see that those types of questions aren't even allowed.
2006-06-22 11:09:03 · answer #11 · answered by sonik_starz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋