ADL Tries to Censor Yahoo Sites

BMIComp writes, "The Anti-Defamation League is asking for Yahoo! to take down club sites that promote hatred, such as "Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the National Association for the Advancement of White People, and the World Church of the Creator." They are asking this of Yahoo, since its terms of service state that users are not allowed to: upload, post, e-mail or otherwise transmit any content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortuous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;" ZDNet's story here " Ah, the ADL. My favorite left-wing censorship group.

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ADL and the Bill of Rights

[Detritus]

The ADL doesn't "get it" when it comes to the Constitution and Bill of Rights. During the assault weapons scare, the ADL was lobbying for a ban on assault weapons because a few racist nuts were running around in camouflage fatigues, playing soldier. This really pissed me off because their attitude was based on the bankrupt old ideas that "good Jews don't own guns" and "the government will protect us from the antisemites", ghetto thinking that helped make the holocaust possible. They think that the government will only ban "bad" speech, certainly nothing that would affect them.

The Lawyers are Lurking

[thales]

Yahoo would be opening themselves up for lawsuits if they enforced the terms of service. Once they assume editorial control by removing some offensive sites, they can be sued for the content of sites they failed to remove.