RE: FN-FORUM Re: Yahoo Censorship

date posted 1st December 2001 15:16

Tosh to the lot of this!

-----Original Message-----
From: Kashif Aziz
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: 01/12/01 13:27
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM Re: Yahoo Censorship

I was banned from one yahoo club after i posted
"something" there.

cheers

Kashif

--- Kif [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote: > Last week there
were a few comments about Yahoo and
> their filtering of
> e-groups and messages that they do not feel are
> "politically correct".
> Today it seems they have gone one step further.
> I know someone who is an anti-globalisation activist
> (everyone to their
> own...) and political commentator.
> Naturally against the war in Afghanistan (as many
> are) and America's
> bullyish globalisation techniques, the website does
> 'knock the yanks' a
> little, but is not really offensive in the way that
> many, many other
> websites could commonly be deemed to be. In fact
> it's not even that
> anti-American... more anti-establishment really.
> Most of it is very well written and intelligent
> opinion, if a little extreme
> in it's "anti-elitist" viewpoint.
> Today Yahoo, without warning, removed the site,
> citing the writers
> "Opposition to the American Establishment" as their
> reason for doing so.
> Who elected Yahoo as Protector of the Establishment
> I don't know, but I
> think it stinks... At the moment our freedom of
> speech/thought/movement is
> being rapidly eroded (not only in the US but in the
> UK too) in the name of
> "The war against terrorism" .
> The WTC tragedy has offered a wonderful opportunity
> to those who seek to
> oppress and restrict the power of the comman man or
> women to have their say
> or get their opinion aired... The nazi's are once
> again burning the books...
> Ironically this is just the sort of thing that the
> Taleban does, and part of
> what the "war" is supposed to be fighting against
> The days when the internet offered people the chance
> to "say their piece" to
> the world at large are rapidly drawing to an end.
> I, for one, will miss them...
> Kif
>
>
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