Yahoo Censoring Bulletin Boards

from the lawsuits-do-funny-things dept

I guess after enough lawsuits that named Yahoo as a potential defendent, they've decided to start censoring certain discussion bulletin boards even if no one has complained about it. This, of course, is leading to some questions about how much open discussion they're really allowing.

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    Mark Baker, 4 Nov 1999 @ 7:43pm

    Dumb!!

    How silly. They've started down the slippery slope, and anybody now has real claim against them as they can say "Yahoo controls content, so since they allowed the offending content, they must approve of it". What a really dumb move.

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    Anonymous Coward, 26 Jun 2006 @ 7:27pm

    yup - thy certainly do - it's a shame that big brother is so omnipresent in the USA

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