How far should the right of freedom of speech be taken.?

Question

I understand that we all have the freedom of speech, but how far should we take it. People get on hear and instaed of asking mature sensible questions that might help other people, the ask idiotic, stupid, and offensive questions. I mean I respect your opinon, but I feel like this is not a place for offensive questions. But I guess where is? Am I out of line? Or am I feeling the same way other people are? I'm just tired of ignorant people posting questions that consist of no benefit for anyone.

Answer 1

I have always felt the same way. The difference is in how I view them as people beyond the question. Take for example, a question I recently answered asking if gays should be allowed to eat human food. Now we all know that food is food and everyone of us is human all the same. Questions like these strike me as someone who is afraid to say it in real life so they turn to the Internet to do their people bashing then go back to pretending in the real world. How mature is that? Not at all ... but they do it anyway. The best we, as smart, respectful Y!A users can do is try to enlighten them for the time and hope that some time in the future karma bites them in the butt ... The only benefit of them asking those dumb ars "questions" is that those of us that have respect for others despite our personal feelings about their choices are doing the right thing, they make us look good! It's a good question and rightly applies to every category on here.

To the first answerer: There is a proper time and place for comments. The old saying "If you don't have anything nice to say don't say anything at all" is 100% correct in that to earn respect you must give it. Show some humanity and stop being selfish.

Answer 2

relies upon on who close them down. If it replace into the ISP, then the 1st replace is beside the point. people in many circumstances misuse and misquote the 1st replace. 'Freedom of Speech' is legally incorrect. the only risk-free practices it ensures is freedom from prosecution with the help of the government for speech, as lengthy as that speech does no longer ruin different rules, like inciting a insurrection, slander, threats, etc. It does no longer be conscious to non-public agencies, nor their TOS or policies that make up the consumer contract between clientele and the provider of the provider. actual threats of violence are no longer risk-free speech besides the fact that if it were a public talk board.

Answer 3

Freedom of speech is a right and should have NO limitations or restrictions.

Any questions I read that I know are just stated to make trouble, I dont bother reading.

Any answers I read to a question that are offensive, ignorant, etc- I just ignore

If you choose to freely participate in YAHOO answers or any other facet of american culture, then you have to put up with the things you dont necessarily agree with, even if it is offensive. If it bothers you that much, you can choose not to participate. This is one of my beefs with american culture atm. Anyone and everyone if offeneded by something and expects everyone else to do something about it. For example people get upset over certain TV shows . . well ya know what? if you dont like .don't watch it. Certain commercials, songs, statues, flags, movies, books, etc . . can and will offend someone . .its part of life. I coudl go on and on, but I've laready hijacked your question enough 8)

Answer 4

DJ: You and people like you bring it upon yourselves. Pontificating about other people's faults and ignorance. I am not of course referring to the section in which the question is asked, merely on the fact that you obviously either forgot to, or indeed were too ignorant to, use the check spelling. 'instead' 'hear' are both incorrectly spelled. As for the gist of your question - one should be permitted to call a spade a spade and not beat about the bush calling it a small flat shovel. If you are gay, so be it. I do not like the idea of sodomy or buggery. That is a fact and I claim the right to state the fact. Apart from all that, take care.........

Answer 5

What you mention is the con of free speech. But, I'll take weeding through the juvenile/ignorant/naive questions/answers over the alternative of not being allowed to speak my mind at all.

Answer 6

Ignorant is as ignorant does. Of course this site isn't intended for bashing, but for sincere questions looking for sincere answers, but I would rather that they get the bashing out of their systems here than in "real life." And not all of the so-called bashing is intended as harassment, and it gives us a chance to educate. Bottom line, you can't throw out the bathwater without accidentally throwing out the baby, too, so we have to put up with the ill-intentions in order not to stifle the good.

Answer 7

but it's their right to ask stupid questions. I don't like them anymore than you do, but we cant tell people what to say or not to say. this country was built on these basic human rights. you may not like it, but once we start censoring people, we will take a HUGE step backward in human liberties.

Answer 8

Yahoo has their own rules for freedom of speech, report it if its ridiculous and vulgar.

Answer 9

Don't try to legislate stupid away, it won't work.

And this is exactly the place for stupid questions, where it can't devolve into fistfights.

Answer 10

As far as it possibly can be. To do otherwise would be censorship.