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p2pnet.net News:- Yahoo US has ordered Yahoo Canada to shut down its news message boards.
Clive Hobson, Yahoo Canada’s director of public relations, told the CBC he’d last spoken with his office on Thursday night and the call was the first he’d heard of it.
“I didn’t see anything that would have indicated that was something they had planned,” the story has saying.
In a letter to readers, “The Yahoo News message boards allowed a small number of vocal users to dominate the discussion,” said Neil Budde, Yahoo Inc’s general manager of news, also saying there were technical problems with the forums’ structure, adds the CBC.
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CBC - No hint Yahoo was to close news forums: executive, December 29, 2006
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December 30th, 2006 at 8:30 pm
Wikipedia claims it is because of the trolls.
An archived copy of Wikipedia article on Yahoo trolls:
http://www.search.com/reference/Yahoo!_trolling_phenomena
January 2nd, 2007 at 8:50 pm
The place where the M/B link USED to be now asks what happened to the M/Bs and leads to this:
http://news.yahoo.com/page/messageboards
No doubt the above poster is correct about the trolls in there, but more importantly those boards WERE one of the last binions of free speech in Yahoo. I think Y! is ONLY using “trolls” as an excuse to be able to censor the M/Bs like they do the Yahoo Answers section.
January 18th, 2007 at 1:37 am
Why should it be a surprise that yahoo would do this? All news topics in all forums ultimately became discussions about 911 and the complicity of the US Government and Bush administration in their development and management. No matter how many people paid by the government to squelch the alleged “conspiracy theorists” ultimately yahoo no doubt was under pressure and collapsed thus elimination of the boards. No doctorate needed here to figure out this is just another launch on freedom of expression and speech. Pretty soon, China will have the most uncensored web in the world at this rate.
January 18th, 2007 at 1:39 am
Not posted by anonymous coward. When typed, it was noted, and I will paste it below that I was posting as “anonymous”..read for yourself.
You’re posting as Anonymous. Log in to post as yourself.
So much for an egalitarian message board…eesh…team up with yahoo.
As for anonymity.,…feel free to email me at nwo_mindprison@yahoo.com
January 18th, 2007 at 1:40 am
Why should it be a surprise that yahoo would do this? All news topics in all forums ultimately became discussions about 911 and the complicity of the US Government and Bush administration in their development and management. No matter how many people paid by the government to squelch the alleged “conspiracy theorists” ultimately yahoo no doubt was under pressure and collapsed thus elimination of the boards. No doctorate needed here to figure out this is just another launch on freedom of expression and speech. Pretty soon, China will have the most uncensored web in the world at this rate.