Email monitoring by anonymous Feds, "reporting abuses" to nameless Yahoo! gatekeepers, questions and answers disappearing or being cut short without dialogue of who or why or by whom, one-way access of public profiles personal info... we're on a slipperly slope people, no wonder we commoners are getting angry and suspicious of all these COVERT actions at so many levels both here and abroad. Hope this ? and your answers survive...
2006-08-07 07:11:47 · 11 answers · asked by .Yeshua Fanatik Prophetik. 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Accidently posted this 3x. Why? Because when i tried to submit it I kept getting knocked off to a "this page cannot be displayed" message... HMM... Hope it's not deleted for accidently being posted more than once.
2006-08-07 07:18:28 · update #1
Monitoring isn't censorship...it's spying.
Yahoo can censor anything they want because the sight is their property. The government doesn't make them do it...they choose to do it because it's better for their business to do so. (I can't force you to let me spray paint graffiti on your house, either.)
What does controversial mean? Something you don't like? Something I don't like? If you and I agree on something, does that automatically make it non-controversial?
Pretty much anything goes on Yahoo Answers as long as one doesn't make an obvious attempt to be hurtful and hateful toward the average user. That's what common sense is for.
I don't talk to my mother about the same things and in the same manner as I do my drinking buddies. Is that censorship, too?
2006-08-07 07:22:58 · answer #1 · answered by 4999_Basque 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your free speech ends when it interferes with my right to free speech.is that the same ?
I personally don't post a question 3+ times and I haven't been looking over my shoulder thinking I am being watched.Nothing will stop me from saying what my opinions are but then I know they are just that my opinion not the Holy Grail of fact.I do not fear big brother,I know he is there I'm sure but I will continue as I have always done,and that's have fun,be helpful if I can ,and offer a kind word if needed or a tongue lashing(mild lol ) if so inclined.I never attack a person ,but I do attract their views at times.I still feel free to do so.
2006-08-07 07:27:17 · answer #2 · answered by Yakuza 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Want to know what's worse... the FCC, the people who control what is allowed to be said or seen on TV and radio is 100% bogus in terms of it's legality. No where in the constitution does it say that a government-formed agency can control what it's people sees on a public television station or radio station. The FCC gives out asinine fines and it has no legal right to do so. Just thought I'd add that.
2006-08-07 07:17:28 · answer #3 · answered by dannyh2oman 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo can censor in any way they want. Think of it as "Yahoo's house": If Yahoo doesn't like what you have to say, Yahoo can kick you out of its house. It is free, so some people get the idea that it is a 'public forum.' It is not. Yahoo has the right to print or not to print whatever it wants.
2006-08-07 07:17:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo is not a right - it is a privilege. You can choose to never come back to Yahoo, and you can tell the world it's because they deleted your questions.
You can blame the government, you can blame fundamentalists, you can blame little whomever you wish, but it doesn't change the fact that you don't have to be here.
2006-08-07 07:19:16 · answer #5 · answered by Miss Vicki 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Look at the radical Louis Farhakhan (spelling?) rant and rave .
The monitoring of communications is small, triggered if it is sent from specific locations that are hostile, sent to the USA.
So if you sent an email or are located in say, Iran, Syria, Iraq, Somalia just to name a few, they will be monitored.
Thank you President George Bush !!!!!!!!
2006-08-07 07:19:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
properly, no. Censorship by ability of authorities is unconstitutional. Yahoo solutions is a loose service, with words of Use that contain abiding by ability of the rules. once you signed up, you agreed to abide by ability of the rules of this service. Failure to finish that leads to your writing being pulled. in case you want to apply this service, keep on with its rules. in case you don't need to adhere to the rules, do not use this service. i locate the words and rules sensible -- they are mandatory for this service operating as a efficient source and style of leisure. in the adventure that they were arbitrarily restrictive, i does no longer come the following. in the adventure that they were thoroughly unenforced, i does no longer come the following, because the failings I come the following for could go away as human beings discovered that each man or woman it contained changed into hate speech and human beings attempting to deliver the gadget to a halt.
2016-11-23 14:28:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the democrats only want to censor things that show THEM in a bad light.
But you can say what you want about a Republican.
2006-08-07 07:15:33 · answer #8 · answered by akebhart 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope. You can't legally yell "fire" in a crowded theater. Yahoo can do whatever it wants towards inciting comments.
2006-08-07 07:19:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo has no obligation to support your speech. They aren't the government.
2006-08-07 07:16:11 · answer #10 · answered by desotobrave 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋