Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.

baba gaga asked in Yahoo ProductsYahoo Answers · 1 decade ago

I lost my Level 7 account....?

Yahoo suspended my Level 7 account. I have had numerous violations over the years but obviously this was the end of that account. In the e-mail notification, I was not even told what it was I did that was so egregious. My question is, do I not deserve to know what I said that warranted the suspension of my account? And how does Yahoo justify censorship? This is a sad example of the extent to which political correctness rules our lives.

4 Answers

Relevance
  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Yahoo does not have to justify what you call censorship. The idea of freedom of speech does not apply on privately-owned websites. Corporations such as Yahoo have the right to make and enforce rules. They also have the right to suspend accounts, without notice, and without having to justify themselves. You GAVE them those rights when you agreed to the terms of service when you signed up here:

    15. TERMINATION

    You agree that Yahoo! may, under certain circumstances and without prior notice, immediately terminate your Yahoo! account, any associated email address, and access to the Service. Cause for such termination shall include, but not be limited to (link provides list of reasons):

    http://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/utos-173...

    As to understanding what you did 'wrong', the numerous violations were warning shots across your bow, so to speak. That was the YA staff way of alerting you that you were in danger of termination. What the final trigger was may never be known. It might have been one single posting just TOO far over the line -- or just the fact that after numerous warnings, you postings did not moderate sufficiently. Supposedly, the YA staff are legally proscribed from specifically stating exactly what the basis of the suspension was.

    You can, of course, try appealing. There have been any number of successful appeals of high-level suspensions -- including the current #1 account on the leaderboard.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    "And how does Yahoo justify censorship?"

    They don't have to. It's their website. They get to set the rules, just like you set the rules in your own house. And, just like in your house, if someone doesn't like it, they can leave.

  • 1 decade ago

    I think that you should have got an answer about why it was deleted.

  • 1 decade ago

    appeal it, or just start over

Still have questions? Get your answers by asking now.