Yahoo Censoring "Occupy Wall Street" Protest Messages

From an article on ThinkProgress.org:

Over the weekend, thousands gathered for a “Tahrir Square”-style protest of Wall Street’s domination of American politics. The protesters, organized online and by organizations like Adbusters, have called their effort “Occupy Wall Street” and have set up the website: www.OccupyWallSt.org. However, several YouTube users posted videos of themselves trying to email a message inviting their friends to visit the Occupy Wall St campaign website, only to be blocked repeatedly by Yahoo.
marinarasays...

they're not censoring Occupy wall st. anymore. Yahoo has done something like a press release and said the message blocking was an error, something like a third party did it,(like a contractor which controls message blocking) so it wasn't even Yahoo policy.

I can believe this, easy to think anything important that Yahoo does, is done by a third party, and Yahoo is incapable of doing much of anything.

I've always felt sorry for Yahoo, they aren't evil enough like facebook and microsoft to cut it.

TheFreaksays...

Yeah, it's hard to imagine Yahoo!'s motivation for doing something like this. But on the other hand, it happened so it's important. We need to *promote more openness in our society where ever it's suppressed.

siftbotsays...

Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Wednesday, September 21st, 2011 11:39am PDT - promote requested by original submitter TheFreak.

ForgedRealitysays...

>> ^marinara:

they're not censoring Occupy wall st. anymore. Yahoo has done something like a press release and said the message blocking was an error, something like a third party did it,(like a contractor which controls message blocking) so it wasn't even Yahoo policy.
I can believe this, easy to think anything important that Yahoo does, is done by a third party, and Yahoo is incapable of doing much of anything.
I've always felt sorry for Yahoo, they aren't evil enough like facebook and apple to cut it.


You made a typo in your post, so I have corrected it.

Boise_Libsays...

>> ^marinara:

they're not censoring Occupy wall st. anymore. Yahoo has done something like a press release and said the message blocking was an error, something like a third party did it,(like a contractor which controls message blocking) so it wasn't even Yahoo policy.
I can believe this, easy to think anything important that Yahoo does, is done by a third party, and Yahoo is incapable of doing much of anything.
I've always felt sorry for Yahoo, they aren't evil enough like facebook and microsoft to cut it.


Yeah, but why did the third party do it?

luxury_piesays...

>> ^ForgedReality:

>> ^marinara:
they're not censoring Occupy wall st. anymore. Yahoo has done something like a press release and said the message blocking was an error, something like a third party did it,(like a contractor which controls message blocking) so it wasn't even Yahoo policy.
I can believe this, easy to think anything important that Yahoo does, is done by a third party, and Yahoo is incapable of doing much of anything.
I've always felt sorry for Yahoo, they aren't evil enough like facebook and apple to cut it.

You made a typo in your post, so I have corrected it.


Second that.

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