If we are so free here in America; Why is it that Yahoo censors us. Yahoo deletes certain answers&questions?

Question

I answered a question a user posed about a revolution in America. My answer was a revolution can only take place through organization and a consensus among the majority. Yahoo feels like they can control the conversation. I understand we are not allowed to sale things. However, we should be able to express ourselves without bigbrother yahoo editing or removing our thoughts. Did yahoo release our records to the government? I guess we know who we can't trust. This is a perfect reason for us all to engage in the conversation that is taking place in Congress regarding Net Neutrality. We do not live in China. Yahoo can not censor us....... UNLESS they are in the pockets of the lobbyist as well as our representation. We the people must stand as one against this invasion..................... I bet this will be removed. If not then Yahoo is "playing games"..........

There are certainly limitations. But what gives the people at Yahoo the authority (besides) the fact they own this site? I never voted for Yahoo to represent me. We the people can not let corporation get away with these things... Read history... Particulary about Apartheid Africa or read Lolita in Tehran, Kaffir Boy.... The Communist party controled speech..... We are working against our better interest!!!

From the responses I've read.....Most of YOU are SHEEP. Not to mention a puppet on a very short string... I can't believe you are so easyily trained...... THINK for yourselves..... Sincerly The Beatles.....

For Ying Yang......"Maybe I'm an idiot" At least I'm not Christian like you!!!!!! FOLLOWER!!!

according to popular opinion yahoo can do as they please becuase they own the site.... Am I correct? Then quit blaming Bush For eavesdropping... You do not own the internet, telephone, credit report, bank account, cell phone account, and so on.... I used your complaints in a different context... NOW we can see the DOUBLE SPEAK and who the real hypocrites are...Thanks for playing my game....GET OFF THE PRESIDENT'S CASE...HE'S PROTECTING YOU!

Answer 1

I didn't see your other questions, but they do tend to be full of hostility. Perhaps you should switch over to decaf...

I have though seen a lot of questions that have been rather... well questionable... some reported multiple times that have not been deleted, so I think there are so many reports of abuse thay may not catch all of them. You were just lucky enough to be chosen.

And calling Christians followers is an insult... thats also a Yahoo no-no. Maybe you need to read the rules so they won't kill any more of your questions.

Answer 2

This is a yahoo site, maintained by yahoo and it has it's rules that are listed. You are free to set up your own site but when you use someone else's you must follow the rules. Their are plenty who use it to either help, inform or ask something within the guidelines but then their is always those few who think they are allowed to do whatever they want. Think of it as Yahoo's house there house there rules. You wouldn't let someone come in your house that you did not know and insult you or curse at you or talk about things that you thought of as insulting you would kick them out and you would probably add never come back here again. Yahoo just kicks people out for a moment not forever, lucky you...

Answer 3

Because Yahoo owns the forum.

Kinda like the NY Daily News and the New York Times.
Used to be ...the NY Times did not have a sports page.
The Daily News did.
The Daily News did not have a chess game/problem.
The New York Times did.
There were stories the Daily News Ran but the NY Times wouldn't touch.
Its up to the owners and editors.

You want to express yourself uncensored.
Start a blog.

Answer 4

I see you like to accuse people of being mindless if they disagree with you... so let's picture things as you want them... all of us spending a lot of time insulting each other and being insulted ... talking about conspiracy theories and not believing anything because that would make us "sheep"... you do realize, don't you, that then we would all be sheep anyway, just in a different way... you aren't being an individual just by rebelling, dummy... People have been doing that forever, you aren't original and it doesn't make you smart or right just spewing out how wrong everyone else is... find some other hobby.

Answer 5

It might be that the asker deleted the question.

Well we have to abide by some law...and yahoo have created a community guideline...if you abide by that then go for it or else create your own law in another website...If you think that you were following the guidelines and then you were deleted then its wrong.

Freedom never means that you have to disturb others... Freedom means to be free without hurting others..If it was so then why would you not be able to drink while you are just 13...

Answer 6

I think you had better examine what freedom is, for though you are correct that you are not free, that has absolutely nothing to do with yahoo's right to remove your posts, its their site, and if the government prohibited them from doing so that would be an example of lack of freedom. Freedom is: the absence of coercion, you would be coercing them for it is their property, their effort, not yours. and just because you should be free to speak does not mean that others are enslaved to provide you with a means to do so. you can build your own site and speak away. If you want to examine your lack of freedom, then i'd begin with this: the definition of a slave is: one who produces while another disposes of that product. And then crossreference that with: income tax, state tax, property tax, municipal tax, sales tax, manufacturers tax, luxury tax, resource taxes, inflation, duties, subsidies, quotas...etc. This is your produce being taken from you, usually added into the final cost of the product, so you don't know what percentage of that price is even a tax. And then disposed of by another who sees themselves as more fit to spend your money, because they claim you don't know whats good for you, and that if laft to volubtary payment you wouldn't spend it "their" way, so they have to take it. Look at the countless regulations allowing the government to monitor your actions, everything from what you buy, what you say, whom you contact, what you produce, what library book you read, even what question you ask here. They are all monitored, research ECHELON, it makes the domestic wiretapping look tame. Again you are right that you are no longer free but yahoo's ability to remove your comment, is an example of a "freedom" which we still possess, to an extent anyway, for i'm sure the government reserves the right to remove that which they deem inappropriate. keep up the fight for freedom but always remember what it is, for even if you can drive it doesn't make you "unfree" if i don't give you my car to drive.

Answer 7

Holy crap you are an idiot.....

You say the US isn't free... because you can't write anything you want in someone else's website.....

What about Yahoo's freedom to not let you ruin their site? Doesn't yahoo have the freedom to post what they want and what they don't want?

This is not your site.... Thats like saying I can't go and take your car.. its a free country... why can't I take your car? And if you give me the "ownership" defense, why can't yahoo use that defense?

You can start a ronfschmidt-answers website.. and see how many idiots go there..

And if the government wants to look at what you post here.. then fine. let them..... Its your stupid fault for posting in here that you don't want other people to see.....

Answer 8

You are an idiot. Yahoo gives us this space to use. They own it and make the rules. It's not owned by the government! They arn't playing games, although you can play games with yahoo games. You can make your own sight, let people come there to chat and make your own rules. Why not try that?

Answer 9

When you run the website it will be you're responsibility to oversee it's content. In the meantime you have the freedom to not use Yahoo Answers.

Answer 10

When you run a website, you can decide what is appropriate or not. You ARE free to express yourself as you wish. Yahoo doesn't have any obligation to print what you say, however.