on ads, chat rooms,should these be censored
123916
Yeah. At least if they (ads) are adult-themed, vulgar or inflamatory. Chat rooms shouldn't be censored, however I think chatroom controllers should create chatrooms separately for adults and children, this way there is less interaction between them and thus less of a chance for pedophiles to contact children.
202143
No, i dont think its bad.  I think it causes problems because people dont know how to use it. If you dont want stalkers, dont put up your name and address. If you dont wanna end up talking to a pervo 85 yr. old acting 15.... dont talk to people you dont know. If you dont want people looking at your shit.... make it private.  I think its rediculous that people complain about something they can prevent. If you dont like that your 10 yr old has a page that everyone in the universe can see...... then take a step back and think about why your letting a ten year old have one to begin with.
639598
First, if these sites are censored, it might be a bad idea to proxy around those censorships.  Otherwise, you can try a proxy bypass site, in which you enter the web address, and the proxy site goes around the censorship somehow.  Try http://www.unipeak.com/
588098
Google home page is a place of quiet and peace as opposed to Yahoo and their constant supply of Moving Ads, which I truly hate.\n\nGoogle hits also have a cool feature--"similar pages" for each hit.\n\nNo, I don't think they will censor you but they should read and learn (not very likely.)
649057
reported\n\nThis site is not for personal/business use. It is to ask questions or answer questions and your AD will be removed by Y!Answers!!!!
172274
I agree except for one thing. I'm absolutely not bothered by discussions on cheating, either.\n\nI think censorship is never acceptable. I don't like it either when they replace 'dirty words' by asterisks. Like nobody knew what the actual words are! Like children are going to be hurt by reading something! If they're not ready for it, they won't even understand it! And the words themselves hurt no one. It's the ideas behind them that can hurt, and children just don't give words the same meanings we adults do. Doesn't it seem we're only protecting the children's parents from the awkwardness of having to explain something they're not ready to talk about? We aren't protecting children. We are protecting ourselves from children! Shame on us!\n\nBesides, who can be so prude to be upset by the words, rather than (if we ARE going to be upset) by the concept or the situation? I mean, you may be offended by the image of, say, a particular sexual activity. But it's the act what offends you. Not the word or words used to name that act. So, if you can't read the word, all that can happen is that you're going to identify the missing or censored word from the context, and that will offend you, too.
190962
It is probably against the law to view these website and you could be in serious trouble. My advice is too either forget about the possiblity of seeing sites that are banned or go work in another country that allows you to read all of the news and not just part of it.
657313
i would rather you report my answer as abuse and have them read it.\n\ni do not support the corprate policy of blocking information at any level for any person over the age of 18 so with that said yahoo please let china see everything i do and be pop up advertized to death and the same goes for google you evil corprate types willing to sell your soul to make a buck .
259826
actually this site has prescreened curse words and automatically puts in the astrix in place of them.  SO you have to be creative in order to say what you want.
128382
This is a real hot potato - your right to free speech is crucial\nBut there is also a responsibility to ensure others aren't offended and minors aren't corrupted\n\nSo maybe the answer is to have a safe area and an open area - in the open area anything goes but access is restricted to over 16's and people who are easily offended won't look there either??
71392
Censorship can not truelly be justified in any sense.  It is simply societies way of controlling what they do not agree with.
582937
absolutely...i hate seeing the "bad" words on here...i have reported a few of them, but it would take for ever to report everyone who does it...and they might not be punished
325619
Censor?  I didn't realize that any participants on YA had the capability or power to censor.  Turn in, report, inform on, promulgate, I'm sure there is lots of that being done.  But not by me. I just dropped in to see what all the fuss was about.
43688
They cannot edit CONTENT, but specific words can be CENSORED.
65952
The ones you can't read, and the ones that name someone else.  Both are against community guidelines, too.
671152
No news site should be censored.\n\nIran filters that site because it's obviously opposed to the Iranian government.
499084
they were probley taken down because of the harassment going on in there. you can find other sites where they have chat though dont worry.