Remove Yahoo Answers from the Internet

PetitionOnline.com ^ | 2-6-2010 | Douglas Gross

[John W]

How do we tell the folks with good intentions such as yourself, from those who claim to be after smut and then use whatever authority they gain to shut this place down?

[woodchukwood]

Concerning Youtube comments:

There’s an arrow at the top of the comments, click that arrow and the comments are hidden.

There are options there as well to block words and limit the comments via their value.

It may even set a cookie so that the comments and options are
made semi-permanent.

[GeronL]

I think government has every right to take pictures of a child being raped off the internet and prosecuting those involved. Its one of the few things they should actually do online, besides trying to stop foreign spies and hackers.

[Grizzled Bear]

Yes, that is very true. The Federal Trade Commission has been asked by many people to regulate the Internet, but as usual they (as an institution of government that taxes us through the rough) have said they do not have the financial resources to do so.

The government wants to regulate the internet via "The Fairness Doctrine."

Be careful what you wish for!

[Domandred]

Then set “answers.yahoo.com” to 127.0.0.1, and you’ll never see Yahoo Answers again on that computer

I think that way they'll still come up on the search engines. The link will just be broken.

[ImperialistDaddy]

Ah, yes the Fairness Doctrine and net neutrality, the wolf that appears to a lamb. However, the way the FCC currently operates works for keeping obscenity off the air.

[VastRWCon]

I try to help people with their math there. I don’t cruise around the rest of it and I feel like I am helping some kids.

My daughter does the same thing, answers students math questions, she is a senior in high school and loves the challenge. Me, I never click on those links when I have a question I know that I can find a better answer in a forum or related website page.

[the_daug]

If I were able to award points your solution Then set “answers.yahoo.com” to 127.0.0.1, and you’ll never see Yahoo Answers again on that computer . . . . is the only one that would get them.

[TBP]

If you eliminate Yahoo Answers, the same people will find their way to another anwers place and it will start showing up in your searches.

Isn’t this the reason Google Answes was closed?

[blondee123]

I don't think the internet should be regulated. I agree that Yahoo Answers has become a troll hangout & seems it's mostly teens late at nite with not much else to do, but I do not agree with supporting a ban on any free speech!

I have helped people with health issues & answered questions for people who were desperate for answers, so there is good there too, just like any forum on the internet!

[ImperialistDaddy]

Yeah, greatly suspect that a lot of high school kids and younger college students love to spew out one-liners on Yahoo Answers.

I guess where I am coming from is very much put out of place. I am 37. I love using the Internet to interact, and try to get some good links, but I find myself growing depressed and agonized by the sheer stupidity that finds its way to tactfully insert itself in my way.

If you look at those that signed on my petition all I got was one troll who posted as “Pukes Onyou” and a few of my friends. Taking my battle elsewhere...

[the OlLine Rebel]

But the point is, we LIKE discussions, but so many are allowed to post - and leave up - scummy low-class comments.

Meanwhile, kids are looking at these sites. Never mind those of us who really don’t like such language.

[t02184305]

I agree completely. I wholeheartedly support your wish to remove Yahoo! Answers from the internet, or at the very least from search engine results.