How do you feel about selling your USA Constitutional rights to companies like Yahoo or AOL. Unless you give up your rights, you cannot obtain their dependent services. It is WRONG for the United States to allow these companies to force you to give up your rights by agreement to their bogus terms! We are sell outs just because we are greedy for their services.
2007-01-17 15:55:47 · 7 answers · asked by archaeoprophet 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
This is why you can ask this question. 1st amendment. good luck
2007-01-17 16:01:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The purpose of the Bill of Rights was to limit the power of the Government, not companies like AOL or Yahoo.
Laws can limit the "power" of AOL or Yahoo but laws are not rights.
For example, if I walk into Starbucks and start passing out Fliers about how bad President Bush is, I could be asked to leave legally. If I go to a coffee shop on a Public University and I passed out the same fliers, I have the right to be there and cannot be asked to leave.
I am not sure where you got the idea that people need to give up rights to use Yahoo and I would like to see the source. But the fact is, Yahoo, or any company can do whatever they want as long as it follows the law and the 14th Ammendment.
2007-01-18 00:30:15 · answer #2 · answered by Justin H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, the rights guaranteed to you protect you from the government, not private companies. The government cannot limit(outside the limits already deemed constitutional by the Supreme Court) you freedom of speech. Yahoo, a private company can limit what you say if you want to use their product. This program is a good example. You cannot use profanity in your answers, at least not without some creative spelling. They can do that.
The same holds true in the rest of the business world. If you are in Walmart, walking around telling people to go to Target, they can ask you to leave. That is private property. If you are on the street coner, they can do nothing.
While this, and other Yahoo sites are not an actual place, this is private property. You are posting something on their webspace. If they do not want it there, they can remove it.
Again, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights protect you from the government taking your rights. It doesn't protect you from private citizens. If you are talking, and I tell you to shut up. I have not violated you civil rights. I just don't want to hear what you have to say. Freedom of speech means you can say what you want. It doesn't mean someone has to listen to you.
2007-01-18 00:06:11 · answer #3 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Constitution binds the government, not private parties (with the exception of the 13th amendment). So a company like AOL or Yahoo cannot violate your Constitutional rights. You need some kind of state (government) action for that.
2007-01-17 23:59:52 · answer #4 · answered by Musmanno 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some terms of a contract don't really stand up in court, but i guess companies like yahoo get the terms right.
the constitution is a document with higher authority than the government for the purpose of protecting the citizen from the possibility of the state violating his/her rights. they have nothing to do with private parties.
2007-01-18 00:19:03 · answer #5 · answered by implosion13 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They want to sell your results and other information to marketers for research. It has gotten real bad the corporations even have us humans putting their names on our clothes.
2007-01-18 00:07:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They offer a product, you can choose not to purchase or use their product. Life goes on. You do not HAVE to give up any rights, no one is holding a gun to your head.
2007-01-18 00:11:01 · answer #7 · answered by kingstubborn 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋