I am talking about on yahoo. People think that "Yahoo is violating my first amendment right to free speech" if their questions gets deleted, or reported.
The First Amendment of the Constitution starts with "CONGRESS shall make no law"
Yahoo, and other posters on here are NOT Congress!!!
Is this such a tough concept to understand??
Thank You!!
2007-09-26 04:54:07 · 19 answers · asked by Supercell 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
T.B.: Huh??
2007-09-26 05:09:56 · update #1
You are right. What most people fail to grasp is that you are free to say what you want but you are not necessarily free of consequences. In the case of yahoo answers, you can type your obnoxious missives without fear that the government is going to come to your house and clobber you, however, yahoo may delete your words -- those are the consequences.
2007-09-26 04:57:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
The First Amendment of the Constitution starts with "CONGRESS shall make no law"
Yahoo, and other posters on here are NOT Congress!!!
Since the first amendment of the Constitution if fact does say this. How do we go about disbanding the congress? After all making law is what they say they are there for.
2007-09-26 05:08:14 · answer #2 · answered by t. B 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This is a comment I left on a 360 page of one of those people you describe.
"If you believe a private company(yahoo in this case)doesn't have the right to set its own rules on its own website,who's the communist then?Do you want atheists to have freedom of speech in your church?Answers is a format,hence the rules,there are kids out there.No one forces anyone to join,agreeing to the community guidelines,or to continue to participate.Yahoo have these 360 thingies where you can rant and rave just as much as you want.They also have groups,chat rooms and geocities where all speech goes as long as it is within the law.Yahoo answers however is a concept where certain rules apply.You knowingly agreed to those rules but choose to break them.
In a free country a private company should have the freedom to decide how to use the service they provide.Yahoo does that with answers.If you don't like the rules on answer there are a million of other websites,there is even a copy on of answers where a lot more is allowed and where they even have an adult section
Life is more than what you want.Rules are everywhere.You follow them or you leave.If I felt yahoo was discriminating me like I read of you all the time I would leave.The Internet is very big
I and others love answers WITH these rules.We are mature and intelligent enough to follow rules we agreed to and if we have the need for more free speech to go somewhere else.Your dramatic tone sounds ridiculous to me considering you are using a yahoo service to express your idea's on this matter while claiming they are infringing on your free speech."
I couldn't agree with you more.Of course my comment got deleted.I totally understand
2007-09-26 05:22:57 · answer #3 · answered by justgoodfolk 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are exactly right. The Constitution protects us from government supression of free speech. Yahoo is a business. If they feel hateful, inappropriate speech is bad for profits, they have every right to remove a question.
2007-09-26 04:58:30 · answer #4 · answered by Brad R 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's just frustration with YA for being WAY too extreme in their handing out of violations. If you answer something in a funny, sarcastic or brutally honest way, you get reported and your account gets suspended. Of course they have the RIGHT to be jerks about their policies, but that doesn't mean they SHOULD.
2007-09-26 04:58:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Freedom of speech DOES exist here. It's just that it's not absolute freedom: you still have to comply with Yahoo's terms of service. Yahoo has every right to impose a terms of service; it's their service, their content after we post it, and it is in their best interest to regulate it.
2007-09-26 05:04:42 · answer #6 · answered by Pfo 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I must agree with you and yahoo makes the rules here .
Its just that simple but people still complain they are being picked on .
Get use to it .
If you are alive and kicking and in this world then you are offending somebody .
2007-09-26 05:01:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i don't think it's so difficult. the first amendment does not prevent me from suppressing your speech, unless i use the government to help me or the government appears to condone my suppression. the first amendment does apply to private entities/persons in certain circumstances; we might have some issues where the government begins to regulate the internet as much as it regulates tv and radio.
2007-09-26 05:01:57 · answer #8 · answered by jealous elf 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This website belongs to Yahoo!. It is their digital property. If you wrote something stupid on the side of my house, it would be my right to clean it off. It's in the terms and conditions.
2007-09-26 04:58:33 · answer #9 · answered by Buying is Voting 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't think many of us are clueless about this.
But I fail to understand why a US advertising company would want to operate any other way.
And I think I have the right to voice my opinions about the unfairness on this site. Don't like it, don't read it.
2007-09-26 05:19:02 · answer #10 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋