Yahoo Appears To Be Censoring Email Messages on Wall St Protests

[Lost-in-FL]

http://thinkprogress.org/media/2011/09/20/323856/yahoo-censoring-occupy-wall-street-protests/





Thinking about e-mailing your friends and neighbors about the protests against Wall Street happening right now? If you have a Yahoo e-mail account, think again. ThinkProgress has reviewed claims that Yahoo is censoring e-mails relating to the protest and found that after several attempts on multiple accounts, we too were prevented from sending messages about the “Occupy Wall Street” demonstrations…

… ThinkProgress tried other protest websites, like AmericansforProsperity.org and TeaPartyPatriots.org, and both messages were sent smoothly. However, emails relating to the OccupyWallSt.org protest were blocked with the following message (emphasis added):
Your message was not sent
Suspicious activity has been detected on your account. To protect your account and our users, your message has not been sent.
If this error continues, please contact Yahoo! Customer Care for further help.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
ThinkProgress has sent a request for more information to Yahoo, and will post any reply once we have received it with Yahoo’s explanation for its apparent censorship.

[Hoosier Daddy]

1. There's a reason why it's called "Yahoo"

:rofl:

[deutsey]

2. Yahoo hates us for our freedoms n/t

[GodlessBiker]

3. I just sent an email from my yahoo account to another account...

with "occupy wall street" and "demonstration" all over it and it went through.

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. Me too.

[Speck Tater]

6. Me three. But, hell. Let's get all pissed off whether it's true or not.

After all, being pissed off at "the Man" is so damn much fun.

[Lost-in-FL]

9. You sound angry.

Yawn… :boring:

[Speck Tater]

12. I used to get angry. Now I'm just amused

When I look at the posts here with an objective eye I just see so many examples of the very thing we all seem to be railing against. Sure, our liberal philosophy is the better choice, but does that justify ignoring facts for the sake of sensationalism? Isn't that what we so often condemn the other side for?

I just have to chuckle as I watch the same techniques of propaganda being employed on BOTH sides.

[Lost-in-FL]

18. If my post "amused" you… why you sanctimoniously bother to whine about it?

Just say that it annoyed you and stop being such a hypocrite. Don't you $@% read that it says "appears" in the title?

If you cared to look at posts with "an objective eye" (cough, cough…) as you said you do, you wouldn't dismiss so quickly the fact that blocking liberal messages from being distribuited by a server on behalf of the establishment wouldn't be something to be "shocked" or surprised about. The fact that you are annoyed means that you still live in denial that something such as this could happen in the US of A. It is time to stop being an "spectator" (a sheep) or take your rose tinted glasses checked for a new prescription.

We have seen elections stolen right on front of our faces, we have seen Liberal TV personalities taken off the air for mere bull shit when compared to what the teahadist have said on national media against liberals, we have seen liberal organizations not being able to have their commercials run on TV even when they have unlimited amounts of cash to pay... and now you sit down and get "amused" by the fact that a liberal board encountered something suspicious being played out by Yahoo? In what bubble are you living? Who said that we are "pissed off"? What is so bad about being cautious?

When there are presidential hopefuls "bragging" about their "business experience" or being business owners and are prepared to send our government down the drain to please Wall St. contributors (like Yahoo!) don't you think it would be irresponsibly stupid on our part to dismiss suspicious activity against liberal groups?

[Luminous Animal]

10. So, it did happen. Of course, no opportunity lost releasing pathetic

snark against your fellow liberals.

[CBGLuthier]

5. why would they even care?

yeah man yahoo just part of the man trying to put us all down.

ReallY???? Really???

[deutsey]

7. It was apparently an unintentional error

Yahoo’s customer care Twitter account acknowledges blocking the emails, but says it was an unintentional error:

“We apologize 4 blocking ‘occupywallst.org’ It was not intentional & caught by our spam filters. It is resolved, but may be a residual delay.”

Yahoo’s main Twitter account adds:

“Thanks to @YahooMail users & @ThinkProgress for catching problem w/ #Occupywallst.org mail. Prob is fixed, but there may be residual delays.”

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

8. Has anyone seen any media coverage of those protests?

I've only seen them reported on Amy Goodman's Democracy Now and on Thom Hartmann's show. I've watched for coverage of them on the other cable news channels and I haven't heard a peep about those protests. Has anyone seen any mention of them? I thought surely that Rev. Al Sharpton would bring them up.

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. 30 seconds on Dylan Ratigan as an entry to another

section, and 90 seconds on CNN... par for course

[Fire Walk With Me]

16. Here are CNN doing their fear-mongering bit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTD8xCJ-zzs

The rich using fear to drive the American public to act against their own best interests.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

17. And why not more support from the people of NY?

That's a big town, come on people get of your asses, it's for all of our best interests.
Stop being wimps.
Fight back!

[RoccoR5955]

11. you have a problem with your account

I have been sending those sorts of messages for days, weeks even, and they get through.

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. Appears, TP is being responsible

it could be an error on their account. But it could also be a server level filter.

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. Appears, TP is being responsible

it could be an error on their account. But it could also be a server level filter.

[jtrockville]

19. Yahoo admitted the error was a problem with their spam filter.

http://100gf.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/yahoo-mail-fixes-occupy-wall-street-block-says-automatic-spam-filters-to-blame/

[brettdale]

20. surly not

I dont think even yahoo will do that.

[Fire Walk With Me]

21. This was confirmed as true...

[Ignis]

22. Spam filters hate us for our freedoms, and our penis enlarging pills!

:rofl:

They admitted to the error and fixed it. Next tempest in a teapot?