2007-03-05 23:52:05 · 18 answers · asked by TD1HOGY2K 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
YES they do ! They provide filters for people that don't like profainity those people should use them. Yahoo swings from the left wing liberal grapevines. To restrict peoples rights is a clear violation of the first amendment! If yahoo wants to violate the first amendment they better have some deep pockets cause the first amendment lives in a tough neighborhood.
Sue the Bastages!
2007-03-06 06:24:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
No. Yahoo does not violate the first amendment.
Think of Yahoo as a newspaper. A newspaper may print what it wants (barring slander, etc), but it can determine its own content. If I write an article as a reporter for that newspaper, the editor can determine which parts of my article can be included for publishing. If the editor determines that he doesn't like some of my content, he deletes it. The same goes for "letters to the editor" types of content provided by readers.
Yahoo may regulate its own content (barring discrimination and similar issues). If Yahoo were to censor comments based on ethnicity or religion, then it could be called to account for such actions (in the U.S. anyhow). But that is a moot issue at best since Yahoo rarely knows what its users' ethnicity or religion is.
As for people being deleted inappropriately. It does happen. Yahoo, like anyone else, is not perfect. And I believe some of the deletion process is automated. For example, if several people report a comment as abusive (whether it really is or not), it still may get deleted due to automation.
Consider the vast number of users compared to the small number of human administrators Yahoo has at its disposal. There is no way there could be a human response to every abuse report.
2007-03-06 01:06:37 · answer #2 · answered by Wyoming Rider 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
No. this could be a public internet site that they are attempting to make secure and relaxing for people of each age. Plus, there are regulations to this internet site which you for sure are not following, and by ability of asking questions that are grimy, rude, or downright incorrect, you're violating those regulations and abusing the flexibility which you think of you have from the 1st modification. additionally, if this broadly used public internet site replaced into violating the 1st modification, there'd be a larger difficulty and this internet site could quit to exist.
2016-12-14 12:03:20 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Constitution only forbids the federal government from restricting speech. Since Yahoo is a private entity, the Constitution has absolutely nothing to do with them whatsoever.
2007-03-06 00:07:58 · answer #4 · answered by open4one 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
No, they have a right as a private board. What they don't do is to apply the Terms of Service equally to all who violate them.
2007-03-05 23:56:15 · answer #5 · answered by nobsallowed 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I would say NO!! It is there web sit they can make up what the want and if you don't like it just teach them a lesson don't ask Questions!! He that a good Idea lets start a movement no one ask a Question anymore until the let us say what we Want!!!
You think!!!1
2007-03-06 00:02:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only the government can violate your first ammendment. A business has every right to pick and choose its policies.
2007-03-05 23:55:28 · answer #7 · answered by Curt 4 · 6⤊ 0⤋
No they do not.
Yahoo! is a private company, and they run their own private computer systems. As such, they have the right to remove anything they want from their computers.
They are not preventing you from your right to free speech. They are simply preventing THEIR SERVERS from being used to serve up your free speech.
2007-03-05 23:54:58 · answer #8 · answered by Scotty Doesnt Know 7 · 8⤊ 0⤋
They are so selective that is what ticks me off! I was thrown out with 3500 points! they should either follow the policy to the letter for all or abandon it all together!
2007-03-05 23:58:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Think yerself lucky your not in Yahoo! China, me old china.
2007-03-05 23:55:27 · answer #10 · answered by fatherf.lotski 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋