Why does YAHOO Answers....?

Question

keep deleting questions that state opposition to illegal immigration? They have been called out time and time again on their liberal bias towards illegals, and unashamedly keep censoring people who disagree with them. Is this a forum for all ideas, or just the ones Yahoo agrees with? Burning American flags, waving Mexican ones, defaming our President, and breaking laws are conveniently excused by Yahoo with Freedom of Speech. I guess that doesn't extend to anyone who disagrees with Yahoo. I guess we see the type of forum they want here.

Case in point... A poster just asked a semi-derogatory question about Hillary, and whamo, the question was taken away.

lordkel... I understand that what he posted was over the line, however, I can just scroll down the list at any given time and see things that are a lot worst.
Genius eh? I like that. Thanks.

excongon...I thought you were detoxing?

I keep seeing the term "playing in their sandbox". While that may be true, maybe they should post the terms of playing in their "sandbox" openly. Is this a forum to ask questions or to promulgate propaganda?

Answer 1

Well, these days everybody has to be "politically correct". Nobody has any sense any more. In school they are teaching us nonsense about all this and that you can't say Mexican or Black anymore. You have to say Hispanic and African American. Which, they aren't African American. They are Black. An African American would come directly from Africa as an immigrant. I'm sick and tired of all this. America has more things to worry about than all of this. Something needs to be done quick before it really gets out of hand.

Answer 2

Those questions were almost certainly not real questions, like 'Why do most Americans dislike Hillary Clinton?' What happens a lot is folks rant and rave about someone or some issue, then stick a question mark on the end of the whole thing, like 'Why do most Americans dislike Hillary Clinton who dresses funny, doesn't shave her armpits, and is the biggest crook in politics?'

Here's a quote from Yahoo Answers T.O.S --
"Don't use Yahoo! Answers as a soapbox to vent your frustrations, rant, or otherwise violate the question and answer format."

Answer 3

They don't... unless the question is offensive and violated YA Community Guidelines. Read them... they are very easy to break. You actually answered your own question with the "semi-derogatory" remark.... that's all it takes... It's not YA!, it's the liberals (Conservatives are guilty to) thought police that will report you. You can dispute the violation, and sometimes even get it rescinded. That's the Nature of YA!... it's their ball, you have to play by their rules.

Answer 4

you are right.
Unlawful Entry is a CRIME. America love it or leave it. Unlawful Entry is a CRIME. Leave it Now. Zero tolerance for immigration-law violators! No amnesty, no "stealth-amnesty." No "change of status," marriage fraud, "exceptional leave to remain," no "Temporary Protected Status." If you break the law, depart or be deported. Illegal aliens kill more US citizens each year than the war in Iraq has killed in four years. Apologists for illegal immigration like to paint it as a victimless crime. But in fact, illegal immigration causes substantial harm to American citizens and legal immigrants, particularly those in the most vulnerable sectors of our population--the poor, minorities, and children. Additionally, job competition by waves of illegal immigrants willing to work at substandard wages and working conditions depresses the wages of American workers, hitting hardest at minority workers and those without high school degrees. Illegal immigration also contributes to the dramatic population growth overwhelming communities across America--crowding school classrooms, consuming already limited affordable housing, and straining precious natural resources like water, energy, and forestland. Taxpayers are being forced to pay for the free health care, education, and other welfare programs being given to illegal aliens; Those tax dollars could be given back to U.S. taxpayers or used to keep our borders secure; They may be here illegally, but they sure know how to "work the system" to collect "free" medical care, "free" education, "free" food, Section 8 housing vouchers and other housing assistance, and hundreds of other social services. It costs citizens additional hundreds of billions of tax dollars at every level: local, state, and federal. It gobbles up billions of our charitable contributions. And much of that money ends up siphoned out of our economy and into offshore accounts. Illegal aliens, over half of whom work "under the table" with neither job nor income reported (nor taxed), are not counted as employed or unemployed. But some of those day-labor and off-the-books "job-lets" would be "real" jobs - available to American citizen job-seekers - if employment regulations were enforced. Illegal aliens can get away with tax evasion, et al., which citizens cannot. In short, we have too many workforce entrants and too few jobs created. The ratio works out to roughly 7-10 workforce entrants per job created. If all illegal aliens depart or are deported, all legal immigration halted, and all temporary employment visas abolished, we still have a problem with more US-born workforce entrants than new jobs created. Illegal immigration damages our country and our citizens every day at every level. And not even the attacks of 2/26 and 9/11 have awakened many Americans to the vast dangers illegal immigration poses to our selves, our families, our communities, our society, our values, our principles, our civilization. Zero Tolerance for Immigration-Law Violators! We must remember the lessons of 2/26, 9/11, and the costs we bear every single day. God Bless the U S A !

Answer 5

Well, I am anti-illegal immigration and Yahoo banned me for some of my comments. I re-registered. A lot of liberals are like that. They only want people to listen to their side.

Answer 6

Its not always Yahoo taking them away, sometimes its posters who report them. I think Yahoo just removes them without always looking at the content. Sometimes asking for a review helps - if there is nothing wrong in it or against the guidelines.

Answer 7

Y!A is such a high-traffic site that they can't afford to have moderators whatching ever question for code of conduct violations, so they depend on other users to report abuse. They get so many reports of abuse that they can't check all of them, so you're 'guilty until proven innocent.'

You probably just notice that comments you agree with get nixxed. Stuff from the other side probably disapears, as well.

Answer 8

Yahoo is a private entity, and it's free to you. Sounds to me like you are getting everything you are paying for.
While I may not agree with them...it's their sandbox and you're just playing in it. Don't like what they do or how they enforce their rules? Find another sandbox to play in.

Edit: Just calling it for what it is. No one is twisting your arm to stay here.
Yeah, it IS their sandbox. Their terms are posted. It helps if you read them.

Answer 9

you knuckle heads . if you are so unhappy with the way Y/A does his business , what are you still doing here . if you don't like it here move , move, move. there is plenty of room on another servers. BYE. kids .

Answer 10

Yahoo is very pro-illegal alien, and very liberal.