Whatever happened to freedom of speech?

They did it to me too. A simple question in the family relationships category. My mother hurt my feelings and I asked, "Who needs enemies, when you have family?". In the section under the question I explained what happened and asked if anyone else has had the same experience and to let me know, I was listening. I was reaching out to strangers to see if it was common for families to hurt each other so much. Now tell me how I violated community guidelines. With all the sick and rude stuff that people put on here, it makes me wonder, what kind of people are running Yahoo. I even wonder why it's okay to have a gay and lesbian section and not a heterosexual section. Isn't that discrimination?

Freedom of Speech has no relationship to a private site. You must abide by their site guidelines, whether it's here, on Amazon, on You Tube, on My Space, or wherever you are.

If you want to create your own site that has no rules so that you can say whatever you want, you are free to do so without interference from the Government. *That's* freedom of speech.

Quoting the First Amendment without understanding it does nothing for your cause.

Edit: "that doesn't give them the right to assume a question was about a person." It sure does. You are on *their* site. If your question wasn't clear, it's your fault, not the people who interpreted it in a way different than you meant it. It's *your* responsibility to make your thoughts apparent.

The Patriot Act. Everybody is so afraid of pissing off certain factions of the government that they are disallowing those rights that may us a great and power country in the first place.

The other thing is everybody has to be so Politically Correct that they don't want to say anything that could be misinterpreted by someone looking to cause problems. It is NOT Yahoo, its the whole damn society.

I know a photographer that saw a girl hanging out and ask if she would be interested in modeling. He had just told her: "No nudity, no porn and no having sex with someone to get the job", when her father shows up and starts accusing him of being a pedophile because the photographer didn't have a business license on him and the girl was 14 y/o. Now, a flyer the photographer gave the girl stated that she would need to be accompanied by and adult, if she was under 18.

The father went out of his way to try and have this guy arrested. All because the photographer wanted to try and get an attractive young lady some respectable work and motivate her to stay in school.

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Read the Community Guidelines. You agreed to all those things when you signed up to participate in Yahoo Answers. Freedom of speech does not extend to a privately owned question and answer forum, whose rules you can either abide by or choose not to and leave the forum.

You too? I've just had a violation notice for stating a truth about Yahoo which is all over the media, but that truth somehow violates the Community Guidelines.

SOme people here are very offended by answers here, to the point that many stories I can tell, I am reluctant to do so, for I don not want a bogus report sailing down, then I have to appeal it, but the Y!A staff wil decline to overturn

god has all the rights just so you know

yahoo answers = god

next in the pecking order americans they think everything is about them

and one final thing most not all but most do not even know Canada is up here north of them

do we have that straight ok now go about your business and dont worry about god or the americans

You are free to say anything you want as long as you are not violating their guidelines.

If you don't like the guidelines find some place else to express your opinions and quit waisting your time here.

well as for saying stuff about muslems liberals want you to shut up no matter how many people they slaughter or how many of their wives and daughters they murder--but if you mean saying filth just for the shock value that is abuse of freedom