They are profiting from it, after all.
I don't think they should be able to have their cake (harvest user generated content for profit) and eat it too (not being responsible for bad stuff on the site).
2007-01-27 05:11:19 · 7 answers · asked by Ejsenstejn 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Interesting. Because there is stuff on these boards (if you are looking for it) that you wouldn't believe.
Including terrorist propaganda (actual terrorist propaganda, not political discussion).
I guess no one reported it.
2007-01-27 05:19:50 · update #1
SInce they are monitoring the site, they are responsible for the content. This was decided in the Delphi (and early BB) case. If you don't monitor a message board, you are not responsible. If you do monitor it, you are. So it is not what we think. From a legal standpoint, yes, Yahoo is responsible. That is why they generally will remove posts first with one complaint, and ask questions later.
-Dio
2007-01-27 05:17:24 · answer #1 · answered by diogenese19348 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When you signed on you accepted the TOS and agreed to follow community guidelines. I think they are being very responsible and if there is error it is on the side of being very careful as to content, I bet they remove 1000 questions every day and some of them unjustly so but they must in order to supervise content.
2007-01-27 13:24:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think they do a great job filtering it. If they didn't I wouldn't be on Yhoo! questions.
2007-01-27 13:20:08 · answer #3 · answered by jake 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think so..It is done on Yahoo site - they own it all - good and bad
2007-01-27 13:19:25 · answer #4 · answered by sholiviks2000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No...I think the participants should be responsible.
2007-01-27 13:19:32 · answer #5 · answered by Jack 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they should just keep the violations to cussing and threatening ...the rest should be open to discussion....
2007-01-27 13:15:54 · answer #6 · answered by badjanssen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are, don't worry. It's being monitored, after all.
2007-01-27 13:15:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋