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Why are bigots allowed to undermine the Yahoo Judaism Message boards?

For years various Neo Nazis and Xtian missionaries have made the Yahoo Judaism Message boards an unpalatable place decent minded Jews and other interested parties to go. If this was a physical message board in a cafe or laundry mat there would be a civil rights issue but yahoo hardly polices itself at all. This doesn't just happen to the Judaism message boards, it happens to a other religious and ethnic groups as well.

This is more than mere trolling.

A second issue; do Jews who use Yahoo have a responsibility to not give the bigots an inch by using the message boards no matter what state they are in? Is it right to give up a public place to Antisemitism?

http://messages.yahoo.com/yahoo/Religion_%26_Belie...

Update:

JC -- This isn't a freedom of speech issue because the point of bigoted trolling is deny the use of a service based on, in this case, religion. If Yahoo policed itself than everyone could have a forum and all opinions could be expressed, even bigotry.

Update 2:

Rick -- This is a common experience and I do think having these forums that allow people to indulge their hates like a diabetic in a candy factory is probably going to lead to some dire consequences for society down the road. Perhaps not these message boards in particular but you never know.

Update 3:

I really appreciate everyone's answers!

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  • 1 decade ago
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    I didn't know that board existed!!!

    It's sad that bigots are using it to spread hate but to be honest, the exact same thing has been happening in Yahoo in the Israel forum; it's got so bad there that people have been accusing Jews of 'lying' about the Holocaust, at times; and as everyone knows, that is such an insult and unfair thing to say to any Jew.

    I think YES, as Jews we DO have to still use these forums, to try and *counter* these spiteful lies.

    Thanks for this post, I've starred it :)

  • Rick G
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    1 decade ago

    Yeah, it is hard when the number of idiots and bigots target an area designed for one common thought.

    It would be good to keep in mind that these same ones remind you of the hatred that is still so rampant in the earth today.

    I am sorry that these people are a plague everywhere, but until Psalms 37 is fulfilled when the "wicked" will be cut of from the earth, it is a burden all those who hope in God has to deal with.

    I know out in the boards that were set up for Jehovah's Witnesses (of which I am one) that you find very few "Witnesses" there, and mainly "anti-JWs" and of course like you describe them "Xtian missionaries" trying to preach their flavor of Christianity.

  • 1 decade ago

    Because Yahoo does not care. Simple.

    Source(s): Life
  • bigot

    cut the word into its roots and you see

    DI. I got

    ie if you see o=.

    then the italian word for God is DIO(DI.)

    and the german word for God is GOTT (pronnounced GOT)

    thus it was bigot that was the basis for the theory there is only one God, whether you can him DIO or GOTT.

    The official languages of those countries dictates that God is DIO and GOD is GOTT. By not allowing the Bigot are you not showing anti-antisemetism? meaning semetism is a form of bigotry also? by now you should be aware most people consider the internet a public place thus anyone can use it. If your arguement is you pay for the service, that not always true becuase public libraries and community centers affor free internet. Should you not want it free, then obviously your saying only the rich should be allowed access to this resource in which case you your pro-Reich (german diction defines Reich as the englsih word rich). And obviously the kosher jews insist on kosher meat (ie the choisest cuts of meat) means they kinda are pro-rich or (whatever german word meaning pro-)-reich because obviously the kosher meat costs more.

    so to a german you would have to almost be "Reich" to be a kosher jew meaning to be able to afford those choicest peices of meat?

    but read btwn the lines of bigot again and it reads:

    I DI. got

    seen as one DI. Gott it kinda shows DIO=GOTT thus germanic in orgin. And perhaps semetism is actually reverse racism meaning anti-german and italian, seeing how DIO and GOTT are words from their homelands or the Fatherland.

    Source(s): german translation dictionary rich=reich (Dicitionary 10.1) kosher meat = choisest cuts of the animal(meat) (Butcher 9.11) better meat cost more money (Economics 3.14) references from the Book of Lippy, a almost biblical text found in the Tomb of Todd in the valley of the lord circa 2134 A.T B.T being before Todd A.T being after Todd
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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I wasn't aware there WAS a Judaism board...

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I honestly report every post that smacks of anti-semitism. I won't stand for it.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    It's called freedom of speech. People will say things you don't like.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    All I can really say is...you've survived much worse than this.

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