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Yahoo Blocked Emails About Wall Street Protests

Posted by samzenpus on from the you-didn't-type-the-magic-word dept.

itwbennett writes "People trying to email information about the Wall Street protests on Monday using Yahoo mail, found themselves on the receiving end of messages from Yahoo claiming 'suspicious activity'. ThinkProgress.org has a YouTube video of users trying to send emails that mention the 'OccupyWallSt.org' web site, which seemed to be the magic phrase to get your email blocked. Via Twitter, Yahoo announced the blockage was now fixed, but 'there may be residual delays.'"

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  1. Re:No censorship on youtube by Mashiki · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Ahahaha.

    Yeah that about sums it up. Then again why would think progress actually give a rats ass about anything factual instead of trying to spin it into LOOK EVIL CAPITALISTS!!!!!11! Instead of well there may actually be a filtering problem. Couldn't be because they're you're atypical leftie front group or anything. I mean this is pretty below the norm for them. Usually they're screaming about evil Jews, and the evil Koch brothers and shit like that.

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  2. Crooks foiled? Oh no! outrage! by Kohath · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    So Yahoo made it harder for some criminals to commit crimes. And Slashdot editors think we should be upset with Yahoo.