Why do people post questions, questioning the existence of free speech on Yahoo! Answers and being particularly angry about it when they signed up under these terms and conditions: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/, particularly this section:
6a:
"You agree to not use the Service to:
upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;"
On top of that, there are numerous community guidelines that simplify the rules stated in the legal article found here: http://answers.yahoo.com/info/community_guidelines
These links are provided when you sign up, found at the bottom of every page and the community guidelines are provided when you ask a question.
Why do people continue to assume that they have the right to free speech here?
2007-11-11 22:45:53 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Joe C: it's not like that matters. You signed up under the conditions they dictated, you don't have the right to complain about it.
2007-11-11 22:50:53 · update #1
Hey, don't get me wrong guys, I'm just as annoyed as you are when a question/answer is deleted without fair cause. I'm talking about the people who gripe about not being able to bash and such under the premise of 'free speech' being completely allowed here. The "I'll say what I want, it's a free country" types.
2007-11-12 01:33:42 · update #2
I have had things removed that were not in anyway braking the rules here.
2007-11-11 22:48:36 · answer #1 · answered by Celtickarma 4 · 8⤊ 0⤋
how about the people who report you for infractions, when there are no infractions,
here`s my example,
a few days ago some girl asked a question, most of her words where misspelled, her grammar made no sense, and basically no one knew what she was asking, according to the answers that were all ready listed, so I responded with the following, " if you used spell checker and used proper grammar people would know what you are asking "
a couple days later i got an email from yahoo Q /A telling me i had been reported for an infraction for that answer. can anyone tell me where the infraction is in that answer?
2007-11-12 20:23:58 · answer #2 · answered by Claude D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
With the exception of unlawful and invasive of another's privacy,
harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;"
all of these are subject to one's point of view.
2007-11-12 06:50:28 · answer #3 · answered by Seán 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Anybody here can delete any Q or A without the victim's knowledge! The Yahoo computers allow sensorship! They delete single word answers other than Yes or No. You can scream and yell all you want and maybe 1 in 10,000 will get a human personal attention... This community is run by its members! The majority here is Christian! so they are the ones who make score in HEAVEN deleting answers and embarrassing questions!
2007-11-12 07:05:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I gripe because it is so random. Things that deserve to come down routinely don't, and you get some really weird stuff removed. I've had violations in the computer section for giving honest advice that would cost $129 on my day job. Now if you can figure that one out, get back to me. All I told the guy was that the repair would cost way more than his computer was worth, and it would have.
2007-11-12 07:01:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
I think a lot of people misinterpret the first amendment. They believe that they have a right to free speech everywhere, when the first amendment clearly only forbids Congress from passing laws restricting speech.
This means that Yahoo!, being a privately owned message board, can legally restrict speech however they want.
2007-11-12 06:49:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Just because Yahoo has the technical right to restrict free speech under a private agreement, that does not mean that the system they have doesn't stink.
They remove things that don't even violate their guidelines, based upon hearsay, because they want an AUTOMATIC, easy to operate board and they don't want to pay people to scrutinize things.
2007-11-12 06:48:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
You are quite right it what you have said.
I don't think free speech exists anywhere as every society has laws about what can and can't be said.
Places like this need rules because most civilised people don't like things that are purposely written in order to offend.
2007-11-12 07:20:40 · answer #8 · answered by Don 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good question Leo. Those guidlines are our constituition. Freedom is not free. It comes with responsibility. Responsibility takes education. I don't want to call them terrorists but those who don't want to know the rules yet alone follow them are indeed selfish. Maybe Y/A should adminsiter a citizenship test. (chuckle)
2007-11-12 07:32:06 · answer #9 · answered by JesusIsTheAnswer 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
On this Earth at this Time in any Group, City, Nation so on---There is this Line, and when you Cross It (you Know Who You Are! ;)-----your On the Other Side!!!
And are then Subject to another Set of "Rules".
2007-11-12 10:35:19 · answer #10 · answered by maguyver727 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you read the terms and conditions on everything that you click "Yes, I agree" to on your computer? If so, you are a first-class nerd. If you are normal then you should understand that sometimes people click "yes, I agree" without reading the terms and conditions, and sometimes people later find out that those terms and conditions that they "agreed" with are objectionable.
2007-11-12 07:01:44 · answer #11 · answered by some_pixels_on_a_screen 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋