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The hyperbole is helpful. First they ban accounts and sometimes delete them to make the person disappear without a trace, and secondly they prohibit you from a
by desbest 14y ago
The hyperbole is helpful.
First they ban accounts and sometimes delete them to make the person disappear without a trace, and secondly they prohibit you from asking why certain people got banned. This censorship prevents people from acknowledging that certain people existed.
Criticising Quora on Quora will get you banned without prior warning, and in some instances have your account deleted without a trace.
And when you're banned or disappeared, nobody is allowed ask why that happened, as those questions get censored.
Think of it like this when you criticise Quora.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/Voroshilov%2C_Molotov%2C_Stalin%2C_with_Nikolai_Yezhov.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/Voroshilo...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/The_Commissar_Vanishes_2.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/The_Commi...
And then being censored when you ask why the person force disappeared.
- XiaoPing 14y agoThey also libel you after you have been banned because you cannot respond.
- codezero 14y agoContent providers are not subject to the same laws of libel as, for example, newspapers. see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubby,_Inc._v._CompuServe_Inc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubby,_Inc._v._CompuServe_Inc. And the subsequent Section 230 of the CDA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communications_Decency_Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicatio...
- desbest 14y agoWhen the admins who run the "content providers" are engaging in libel themselves, about the people that use(d) their service, it's a whole different ball game. In no way was it implied that an ISP or other information transfer network (ie. the post), had to moderate its data transfers. This is about the specific service that uses the network, not the network.
- codezero 14y agoAdmins are for the most part volunteers who do not work for or represent the company. But you are right, if company employees are saying things specifically about people that would be considered libelous that's a problem.