I recently read and answered a question by a person who was probably not a devout Christian who asked about god intelligently designing buffalo wings. It was a silly, trivial and amusing question. Someone took offense. It is highly improbable that Yahoo will respond similarly to my being offended by some infantile nut case saying that all people are sinners because Eve ate an apple or that the world is the center of the universe or some other pre-scientific, primitive, barbaric explanation for natural phenomena that requires an animal or human sacrifice.
By censorship Yahoo supports a religion and diminishes my Constitutional religious rights.
2007-09-05 00:16:37 · 11 answers · asked by valcus43 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I sympathise, but Yahoo is a private company, so your reference to the Constitution is more than a little irrelevant.
2007-09-05 00:22:37 · answer #1 · answered by Voyager 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well not sure what an issue that your personal National laws have on an international arena...
But having said that - I've noticed that there seems to be a religious bias in yahoo.
Yahoo seems to act on complaints about anti-Xian comments much slower than complaints about anti-other faiths.
There was a troll here last week that I know several people who reported a number of his questions & answers (& some were truly innapropriate & objective) & asnear as I can work out it was over a mimimun of 20 complaints over 3 days before he was removed. And yet I know several active non-Xians who've been removed for a lot fewer cmplaints.
This is based on personal experences (responces to ONE complaint about me) & communications with people I've known for a while & who I'd believe when they say who & why they've reported people.
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2007-09-05 00:59:15 · answer #2 · answered by Rai A 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo does not support or condemn anyone's opinions. On the contrary, I think it provides a good platform for discussion of controversial issues. The people who are taking offense are the Bible-toting Christians who are completely unable to see past their own misconceptions of the world.
I personally like it when people take offense- if you feel strongly about something, the likelier it is that you will generate active, interesting debate...
2007-09-05 00:22:31 · answer #3 · answered by Riya Layne 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Idiots that are "violation happy" appear in all categories - not just R & S! Yahoo Answers doesn't care about anyone's religious or philisophical views - it merely "responds" to any violation. If someone reports you as having "violated" the rules - you will be warned. YA does not check the validity of the violation, they just respond. This is not a place for you to express your views anyway that you want - there are guidlines that must be followed.
2007-09-05 00:26:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well if it makes you happy. One of my answers was just deleted, and I'm a Christian. My reply was "You are so silly." Which clearly is hardly what I would consider offensive, but someone was offended. So I think your charge that Yahoo is biased toward supporting Christians is not grounded in fact.
2007-09-05 00:25:46 · answer #5 · answered by William D 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Unfortunately Y!A doesn't support freedom of speech, and is definately biased!
An atheist
2007-09-05 00:26:10 · answer #6 · answered by Grotty Bodkin is not dead!!! 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo is not the government.
It can censor whomever it chooses to.
2007-09-05 00:22:47 · answer #7 · answered by Mystine G 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
From my observations on how the discussions go in here.
You have you story backwards
2007-09-05 00:34:09 · answer #8 · answered by kenny p 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
most of tem are christian and religion is about discrimination
2007-09-05 00:24:20 · answer #9 · answered by Kruger, Freddy Kruger 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
criticism and disagreement are NOT persecution!
2007-09-05 01:00:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anthony M 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋