Boycott Yahoo!!!

Yahoo has signed a contract with the US government handing over private info. from all Yahoo users! This started just about the time the gov't starting all the phone taping! Yahoo has also refused people to create screen names using the words 'allah, osama, etc.' which also excludes words containing certain keywords such as 'callahan!'

I personally have cancelled my yahoo account because of this and I emailed Yahoo and they never responded to my email!

 

that's total bullshit. where did you hear this?? do you have a related article??

wasn't the same idea proposed to Google and they refused?

 

and both google/yahoo censor shit in china.

Didn't yahoo actually hand over information on dissidents in china?


they're all bad and traitors to freedom.

 

Why do you care, if you keep private info on yahoo, you're an idiot.

 

Now why did you find it necessary to insult me, Streamlight, when I didn't have anything mean to say to you? I actually did read a news article that was posted about 2 months ago on MSN about it.

 

Yup, 'The Great Firewall Of China'. If you search for Tiannenmen Square on Google in China you get half as many results as we do, and none relating to the incident. It's awful.... totally wiping out an event from history.

 

posting extremely personal information on somethin like yahoo is rediculous

but when the government is trying to squeeze personal information out of these kind of organizations such as yahoo, that's pretty low, i've never used Yahoo, and from now on never will

 

What's idiotic is the response people have when told about censorship, wiretapping, government intrusion and such. "If you're not hiding anything, why should it bother you..."

Unreasonable search and seizure is in the bill of rights for a reason.
Read a book.

 

Well, I don't think boycotting yahoo is the solution. If Yahoo doesn't want to give up that info, they have the bill of rights to protect them. I've read books, I'm not an idiot like you seem to think I am.

 

obviously you are since you just messed the point of the thread.
No one gives two shits about yahoo's rights, they signed the contract.
What's got customers pissed is that their internet provider is now disclosing personal info to the government. That could include financial info in email accounts, political alignment...
How is boycotting the company not the solution?
What would you propose?

(and the only person who was throwing the word "idiot" around was you)

 

well, it's a good thing I don't know any one by the names allah, osama, or callahan!

 

I think the main point is that giving up personal information w/o someone's consent is WRONG. Whether or not someone put their info on Yahoo does not warrant yahoo to invade their personal rights.
I completely agree with the person on this thread who brought up the "if you have nothing to hide, then why worry?". Having nothing to hide is NOT the point! It has to do with our freedoms to privacy.

Regarding phone tapping (which I view as similar, which is why I bring it up)
Bush stated explicitly that to tap a phone you have to get a court order. They are in direct violation of this. The reason: a court order takes too long for them and it is too much of a hassle, essentially. Your rights are upheld...if the govt wants them to be, if it's not too much of a hassle.
I am disgusted by this whole thing

 

The FBI mandated that Google had to turn over their search records. That is 100% true. They did it under the ruse of they were "waging war against porn". Last time I checked porn wasn't illegal. It does not surprise me one bit that now the FBI would mandate that Yahoo has to do it too. Soon all the search engines will have to do it. It is total bullshit though. But really if you think about it the tracking cookies do the same thing. A lot of websites won't let you on if you don't have cookies enabled. It's been building up to this for a while. I don't agree with it, but now they are just making public what has been going on for a while.

 

child porn is very illegal.

 

Actually... someone in a near by city filed a lawsuit against Yahoo! awhile back because his name had the word "allah" in it... and yahoo wouldnt let him create an account with the word "allah" so he took it to court and won...

 

heres the article http://www.winonadailynews.com/articles/2006/02/23/news/01fcdude.txt

 

that is so true

 

Yes, child porn is very illegal, but that was not the excuse the FBI used to require Google to turn over search records. If it had it probably wouldn't have really stuck out in my mind. The FBI has stated they are waging war on porn. Period. Not child porn, or anal porn, or gay porn, or animal porn, or whatever else kind of porn, just plain porn. Last time I checked the Supreme Court had ruled that porn is a form of speech and all speech is supposed to be free. So if the FBI is waging war on kid porn why not say so to begin with?

The point is the FBI shouldn't be mandating that private corporations turn over search records with IP's and God knows what else. Whatever happen to privacy? For all we know they could also mandate that all records pertain to allah or anything else muslim be turned over then you could have FBI on your door step because you searched out that word. Then of course they would claim they were only investigating terrorist and they had authority under the patriot act.

Chew on that........

 

to fuck censorship: i dig that quote

 

.....did anyone see the pbs show where they showed the infamous "tiannenmen square" photo to teenage chinese kid's? not 1 of them new ANYTHING about it, first time they ever saw it .