clean up the comments sections. Racism and homophobic conduct has no place.
I have seen some truly vile and reprehensible conduct in the comments section of news stories that are disgusting even for someone like myself that is not easily offended. You need to moderate these comments sections to ensure that they do not become a platform for racists and homophobes. This is not the USA. We may have " freedom of speech" but that does not entitle one to spew hate on a public platform here in Canada. Shame on you yahoo for allowing this to go on this long. You have a code of conduct that people are expected to follow, Start enforcing it and ban those who disregard it.
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kenneth johnson commented
Stop being a liberal *****.
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richard william commented
People who criticize the gay lifestyle are not phobic or afraid of homos - merely critics. People who criticize black race hustlers are not racist.
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richard william commented
Some people can only express their anger at homos, Muslims, and violent blacks in crude ways. Homosexuals spew hate toward those who dont agree with them in other ways just as repehensible by boycotting and slandering businesses. Thank goodness Yahoo does censor the description of ********** acts, so be thankful for that.
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Anonymous commented
Why is Yahoo allowing all these racist people ?
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Anonymous commented
I agree!
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Anonymous commented
I agree.
Yahoo is just a platform for racists and homophobic people to get their views out in front of millions.
Just try reading a science article without people bashing nasa and telling others they are going to **** for not believing in the bible.
There are never any constructive debates... just copy/paste political talking points.
Id rather not have any comments section at all.. or at least make people use their facebook ids.
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Anonymous commented
I second this. How a supposedly civilized web site allows this is incomprehensible.
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Kimberly commented
This really is a horrible problem. I try to stay away from the comments of hot topic articles in the American section as the volume of racist, anti-Muslim and homophobic comments is shockingly high. I can't believe how much hate you've allowed to accumulate on your own pages. And when I see certain accounts posting the same vile content OVER and OVER again in the Canadian section it makes me sick. Yes, occasionally those posts disappear but it's usually long past the point that they should have. I don't frequent Yahoo News as much as I used to because of this reason.
This isn't about an occasional off-color remark from an average user, this is about users like the white-supremacists who go out of their way to post highly detailed arguments for their brand of hate and I'm TIRED of seeing the same names over and over. There is a line that gets crossed repeatedly by these people and it's obvious that they are allowed to continue to do so. Obviously, there are certain subjects that these people are drawn to and those articles need to be moderated. It's not about words that need to be filtered, it's about these disgusting ideas that they are posting.