Yahoo Appears to Censor Email Messages about Wall Street Protests, Apologizes

[marmar]

from thinkprogress:



Yahoo Appears To Be Censoring Email Messages About Wall Street Protests (Updated)
By Lee Fang on Sep 20, 2011 at 1:50 pm


Yahoo blocks users from sending e-mails about the OccupyWallSt.org website with a message claiming "suspicious activity"
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.


Yahoo blocks users from sending e-mails about the OccupyWallSt.org website with a message claiming "suspicious activity"

Over the weekend, thousands gathered for a “Tahrir Square”-style protest of Wall Street’s domination of American politics. The protesters, organized online and by organizations like Adbusters, have called their effort “Occupy Wall Street” and have set up the website: www.OccupyWallSt.org. However, several YouTube users posted videos of themselves trying to email a message inviting their friends to visit the Occupy Wall St campaign website, only to be blocked repeatedly by Yahoo. View a video of ThinkProgress making the attempt with the same blocked message experienced by others:

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

ThinkProgress tried other protest websites, like AmericansforProsperity.org and TeaPartyPatriots.org, and both messages were sent smoothly. ...............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://thinkprogress.org/media/2011/09/20/323856/yahoo-censoring-occupy-wall-street-protests/

[Zywiec]

1. Yahoo already corrected this and apologized

Just read a little farther down on your link:

Update

We’re continuing to monitor Yahoo’s mail service and have now been able to send messages containing the phrase “Occupy Wall Street” and its website on some Yahoo accounts. On other accounts, however, Yahoo is still blocking the messages.
Update

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.”

[Cirque du So-What]

3. The spam filter! Yeah! That's the ticket!

Smart move on the part of a lickspittle corporate toady like Yahoo! to hire a pathological liar like Tommy Flanagan.

[Zywiec]

5. You don't think it's possible that Yahoo

has a spam filter that prevents a brand new email account to send out links to a brand new website?

Gee, I can't imagine anyone would ever create an account just to spam people with a fake website...

:crazy:

[Cirque du So-What]

2. Yahoo is nothing if not a lickspittle corporate toady bowing to the whims of TPTB

If I had a Yahoo! account, I would give a hearty heave-ho to the whole shitaree.

[LaydeeBug]

4. I refuse to update it. They tell you the new update "scans and analyzes" e-mail

That's bullshit.

[Zywiec]

6. It actually "scans and analyzes" your brain

:tinfoilhat:

[Cirque du So-What]

10. Crazy eyes and tinfoil hat

How many more ways can you insult people criticizing your pwecious?

[marmar]

11. Par for the course, sadly.

nt

[L. Coyote]

7. FALSE story! I tried this and I had no problem. UnREC

There is another reason why the e-mails failed, and this story is FALSE.

[marmar]

9. Read the whole story, yahoo fixed it.

nt

[bowens43]

8. all email should be sent encrypted.

would you send a letter through the postal system without an envelope? Why do that with email?