Yahoo Answers continuously keep removing political questions and answers in which George Bush, his administration and his policies are being strongly criticized. None of those questions and answers contain any abusive language, hatred and/or any racists remarks. Does it appeared to you that Yahoo answers is totally bias and being controlled by Bush administration and his cronies. Isn't it true that Yahoo Answers simply violates US constitution, civil rights, freedom of speech and certain liberties of American people?
2007-09-13 00:55:20 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Yahoo is indeed a private company, but they themselves induce people to post questions and answers. Accordingly people post their questions and other post their answers based on their knowledge and beliefs.
2007-09-13 01:19:23 · update #1
You are very much correct. They keep taking off numerous questions and answers which criticised George Bush and his policies. Only yesterday they removed my answer:
Question: What do Americans feel about?
Deleted Answer: Bush ,Cheney and all of their cronies are MAD AND EVIL. THEY ARE FASCISTS, TERRORISTS AND MASS MURDERERS.They are not taking only US down to hell, but the whole world suppose to suffer because of bunch of those blood thirsty mass murderers and war criminals which American people placed in power.
Judging by YA conduct they definitely being controlled by the White House.
2007-09-13 01:05:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 9⤋
Contrary to other statements, Yahoo is not a private company. They have stock that is traded therefore making it a public company. ( Stock symbol YHOO NASDAQ).
Be that as it may, Yahoo removes questions and answers at the behest of YOUR fellow users. If you posted something someone did not like ( or you have a stalker) they will report you even if the question was not offensive to others. This is an automated process and it done by computer This is why there is the appeals process to get your points back since you lost them as a result of the deletion and it is reviewed by a HUMAN. I have seen anti - Bush questions and answers which are NOT deleted.
I have also seen people such as yourself bit*ch about a question not being posted when they went to look it up, and I have gone into the complainer's profile and found the question alive and well because they were expecting it to be on page 1 when they hit enter completely ignoring the fact that there are thousands of people doing the same thing at the same time. Their question just might have made it to page 2 or 3.
if you don't like the forum, don't use it. Grow a thicker skin otherwise and move on. There will always be questions that some twit will dislike and complain and have deleted, just repost the question. there will always be someone to answer it
2007-09-13 01:25:30 · answer #2 · answered by thequeenreigns 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
There is no freedom of speech on Yahoo Answers because it is a privately owned site that is allowed to make and enforce rules. You gave up your right to free speech when you agreed to obey those rules when you signed up on here. As to why the question was deleted, that is open to interpretation -- and Yahoo Answers team has the final say on that end. You can appeal one more time, if I am not mistaken (and often 2nd appeals work after 1st appeals don't), but you would need to clearly and calmly show your point, with reference to the CGs, not just say things like "Why? Unfair!", which is what a lot of folks resort to.
2016-05-18 04:38:12 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You forget. It is there website, they can control the content. Newspaper publisher just do not let anyone post stories in there paper. The TV stations will not just let anyone come on the news.
They are not stopping you from your opinions, or posting them on other sites. If they did, then they would be violating your rights.
Also, they probable do not have that big of a staff for Yahoo Answers. If people "report" a question or answer they might just take it down without really looking at it.
2007-09-13 01:06:39 · answer #4 · answered by Chris 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo does not claim to follow free speech guidelines with their "community."
I think this fact alone should give every red-blooded American pause. A US internet company that has the ability to reach around the world chooses some other guidelines than those of their own nation. Scary.
Regardless, Yahoo can violate free speech. All companies can and do have the right and power to maintain their own business in their own way as long as they follow the laws. Free speech applies to governmental actions. The government cannot censure free speech, but advertising companies are subject to censureship through Federal laws.
Honestly, the key seems to be civil discourse. I receive many warrantless violation notices and I challenge every single one. I have found that many Liberals lack a sense of political humor and I have seen many funny Conservatives suspended from this site. SO, I try to not make fun of them.
2007-09-13 01:05:11 · answer #5 · answered by ? 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
1) Yahoo is a private entity. It can do whatever it wants
2) I have seen this charge levied from both sides
3) At any given moment, there are upwards of 180,000 questions active in YA. I don't think they have sufficient manpower to read all of them
4) The process is initiated by the users themselves. If you have a complaint, it is with those who report questions or answers based on their own political ideologies.
5) The new process that Yahoo has instituted should eventually limit the abuse of the "abuse button" by limiting the abusers of the abuse button ability to report.
Free speech only applies to government entities.
2007-09-13 01:17:29 · answer #6 · answered by Charlie S 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No. Yahoo is a private company, and this forum, though open to the public, belongs to them. They can do whatever they please with it, including deleting posts they don't like. You have no constitutional right to free speech in a private setting. If you came into my yard to deliver a speech on politics, my running you off my property with my shotgun doesn't infringe on your right at all, in a legal sense.
That said, I seriously doubt this is indicative of some larger yahoo policy or conspiracy. More likely, they employ a large staff. If the person moderating on shift today is a con, he or she may delete some lib posts, and if a lib, may delete con posts.
2007-09-13 01:04:33 · answer #7 · answered by Chance20_m 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Do you really think, yahoo has employees, who read each and every question posted in yahoo answers and determine which ones to remove ?
And read each and every answer to choose which ones to remove ?
The removable process is 100% automated, you get a certain number of abuse reports and the question or answer is automaticly removed by a computer program.
There are no humans involved.
And what constitutional right do you have to post anything on a Yahoo owned compater server ?
That would be like saying, me spray painting graffitti on your house, was protected free speech.
2007-09-13 01:09:22 · answer #8 · answered by jeeper_peeper321 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
It's their house, so it's their rules. I can't come into your house and break your rules any more than you can in mine. I have noticed though that the time of day you post, the forum in which you post it, and the screeners that happen to be working that day all have an impact. Over a period of three months, I posted the same joke on Jokes & Riddles. Twice it went through but was yanked the third. I also answered the question "What has Hillary done for America" with the answer of "Nothing", and it was yanked. I see Q & A about oral sex all the time, but yet those go through.
2007-09-13 01:04:36 · answer #9 · answered by Jim C 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
By reading the posts here on yahoo, it has to be pretty vulgar to get removed if it is about Bush. I posted an answer that perhaps Islam had run its course and was a dying religion due to its failure to evolve with the social norms of the world. No profantiy, no threats, just an opinion. I got pulled. Am still getting nasty e-mails from Yahoo. I told them that if I had said the same about Judaism or Christianity the answer would have stayed posted. What did you say that got pulled?
2007-09-13 01:04:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Unfortunately yes. And I do agree with ALL the comments listed. Some time back I had my previous account suspended. No prior warning other then I'd breached the guidelines i.e. would I contact them if I thought it unfair!
Yes I thought it unfair, extremely unfair, as what I had inadvertently broached / said / written was never explained or made known!
Contacted the listed e-mails to ask, what did I inadvertently do wrong, my apologies, it won't happen again etc. Get my account reinstated, all back on its feet!.
drew a blank, all dead, no responses, all e-mails rejected.
That account meant a lot to me and 1 was firmly entrenched in it.
It started my day just to open it, spend an hour, catch up with views, comments, the banter, humor and so much more in so many anonymous friends I came to know and recognize by their odd, hilarious, screwball names, erratic and worthwhile points of view and those bordering on the lunatic
Conversely of course they no doubt thought mine in the same clubs
So here I am starting again - but its not the same - its somehow different.
I lost something that day / a lot of tremendous anonymous friends with hearts of gold.
2007-09-13 01:40:35 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋