and lack of free speech? They delete your question or answer just because some other member complains about it, and they ignore you if you appeal the matter. Well, they will send you a form type of response saying the deletion stands.
2007-11-05 08:08:19 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
What ever happened to "I may not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"??
Forget that... we're in the age of "I have a right not to be offended by anything!"
2007-11-05 08:12:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Nope. Not at all.
You have the freedom to speak and write what you wish in public forums.
Yahoo! answers is not a public forum, but a private company with public rules.
I've asked many questions, and offered many answers, and can count on one hand the number which have been deleted. Usually they were removed because I lost my temper while writing.
There is nothing wrong with civility. People like to make the claim that good manners means "political correctness". People like to think that freedom of speech means freedom to incite, freedom to attack another person, freedom to be vulgar and other such nonsense.
Freedom of speech means that one has the right to state something that may be unpopular, but it does not guarantee one the right to harm or insult others without repercussion. It does not guarantee the right to slander.
I have found that Yahoo! Answers has been quite tolerant of valid points, even if they have been unpopular, as long as they are stated in a mature and considerate fashion.
If you find that you are having a problem, perhaps it is that you wish to insult others, or that you have a problem with language that prohibits you from saying things in a way that doesn't make people very upset.
It is possible to say most things without resorting to vulgarities. It is possible to convey most ideas without insulting other people.
2007-11-05 08:21:58 · answer #2 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
YA is a privately owned internet site devoid of legal accountability to furnish all of us with a communicate board to assert regardless of they % on the information superhighway. it extremely is not a loose speech difficulty. they might delete each question that had the word "the" in it and it nonetheless does no longer be a loose speech difficulty. Now if the government wanted to ward off you from asserting something you wanted on your guy or woman private internet site, then you definately've a element.
2016-09-28 09:46:38 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Free speech means you cannot get in trouble with the government for speaking your mind. Yahoo is not the Us government. They have every right to deny service to anyone.
You cannot go into a restaurant and start offending the other customers and then hide behind the first amendment. The owners have every right to kick you out. This is the same thing.
2007-11-05 08:14:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
America is a country; Yahoo is a private business and, as such, can make members waive certain Constitutional rights in order to come here.
By the way, they have a rule against asking the same question over and over so be careful or the trolls will report you for it. They reported me in the past for less.
2007-11-05 08:21:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yahoo answers is world-wide, so the American understanding of rights of free speech go out the window. This forum is, however, far too politically correct. That some is offended and reports you is enough evidence. "Guilt" is presumed. Yet often enough, the questions offend me more than some of the answers.
Welcome to the world-wide-web.
You have now entered the Global Community, and it is not a gated community.
2007-11-05 08:15:36 · answer #6 · answered by Bobby Jim 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It may seem unfair, and if you can honestly say that there was nothing offensive in your question or answer, then perhaps it really is unfair.
However, we are playing in their sandbox, so we play by their rules.
I think most of us prefer a reasonable degree of censorship so we don't have to wade through a whole bunch of garbage when reading people's opinions.
It is usually (always?) better to have some minimum standards of courtesy and diplomacy to facilitate an open forum of ideas. Without adherence to and enforcement of those standards, the whole discussion breaks down into a childish fiasco of yes it is! no it isn't! yes it is! no it isn't!.
Not very constructive.
2007-11-05 08:21:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yahoo is a private company and when you sign up you agree to their terms and conditions voluntarily limiting the free speech capabilities that you have.
2007-11-05 08:18:15 · answer #8 · answered by genaddt 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What do Yahoo policies and the U.S. Constitutional protections from governement censorship have to dow ith each other?
2007-11-05 08:12:19 · answer #9 · answered by Fred S - AM Cappo Di Tutti Capi 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I'm sorry but it's time to get over it already!!
I'm sorry your question was deleted (which was days ago) but that is an issue to take up with YA , not continually post rants about it.
You have posted about this AT LEAST 4 times now. Your posts have nothing to do with religion or spirituality so please stop.
2007-11-05 08:18:02 · answer #10 · answered by ImUURU? 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋